Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas

This story (“Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas“) from the Los Angeles Times should make anyone with a heart want to cry.  A deaf mute carwash worker   — and DACA recipient with work authorization — is chased and arrested while working in the San Gabriel Valley in the greater Los Angeles area and sent to immigration detention in Texas.  When immigration officers “seemed to be demanding something [from him, the man] gestured at his ears. . . . He could not hear. And he couldn’t speak.  [He] is deaf and mute. He thought that presenting his Real ID driver’s license would keep him safe. He has legal permission to be here. He came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was about 5 years old and had been granted permission to work more than a decade ago under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He has no criminal history.”

The good news is that this person “was released July 8. He is one of an unknown number of immigrants with permission to live and work in the U.S. who have been caught in the dragnet of President Trump’s deportation campaign.”

KJ

KJ