From SFGATE: Despite calls to release a detained UC Berkeley student who was arrested at SFO... and transferred to an “inhumane” Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the eastern California desert, the Department of Homeland Security is refusing to free her... The student, 23-year-old Paula Valentina Albornoz Hernandez, had a work permit and had applied for asylum when she was arrested by ICE agents at SFO last week. Described by her lawyer as an exceptional student, Hernandez, who came to the U.S. from Colombia, won several awards from her junior college before transferring to UC Berkeley.
Agents had no warrant to arrest her, Centro Legal de la Raza lawyer Nikolas De Bremaeker previously told SFGATE, and they did not provide due process. Since her arrest, she has been transferred to California City Detention Facility, one of the most “horrifying” ICE facilities in the country for its lack of sufficient medical care, according to De Bremaeker...
Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/trump-admin-berkeley-student-22514522.php.
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