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WilsonRodriguezMacarreno https://www.dailykos.com/news/WilsonRodriguezMacarreno News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:38:29 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:38:29 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Washington immigrant arrested after calling cops for help could be 'on a plane to Honduras in days' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/2/19/1742771/-Washington-immigrant-arrested-after-calling-cops-for-help-could-be-on-a-plane-to-Honduras-in-days Advocates fear that due to what the Tukwila Police Department claims was a mistake, Washington state dad of three Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/father-three-who-called-police-and-was-turned-ice-be-deported-within-days-due-808963" target="_blank" title="">could have just days left in the United States</a> before he’s deported to his native Honduras. <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/13/1741090/-Immigrant-man-calls-police-to-report-possible-intruder-gets-arrested-and-turned-over-to-ICE-instead?_=2018-02-19T07:41:31.357-08:00" target="_blank" title="">Earlier this month,</a> Rodriguez Macarreno called police to report a possible intruder who had been stalking his property for weeks. But rather than taking the suspect into custody, it was Rodriguez Macarreno who was arrested despite having no criminal record and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Police claim that they made a grave error when they ran Rodriguez Macarreno’s name and mistook an administrative warrant from ICE—which “can be signed by an ICE officer without being supported by probable cause,” and therefore does not have to be honored—for a judicial warrant. But Luis Cortes, Rodriguez Macarreno’s attorney, thinks the story is different: "Administrative warrants have the Homeland Security logo right on top of it. It looks significantly different. What seems to me that happened here was that they didn't look at any warrant. They ran Wilson's name in without looking at any paper work” and then took Rodriguez Macarreno to ICE themselves. Following community outcry, Officer Victor Masters “said the department, after this incident, determined that if an ICE warrant appears in future NCIC checks, officers should notify their supervisor, who will take a closer look. ‘If it’s administrative in nature, we’re not going to honor it.’” But, this is all too late for Rodriguez Macarreno, who is direly close to being torn from his family and U.S. home of nearly 15 years. "If we do absolutely nothing he will be on a plane to Honduras in a few days," Cortes said. "This is beyond ineptitude,” <a href="http://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tukwila-immigration-case-sparks-community-response/281-518034512" target="_blank" title="">said</a> Juan Jose Bocanegra, an organizer for the Seattle-based El Comite, an immigrant rights group. “How is it possible that Tukwila officials turn in a resident who called them for assistance? This only further corrodes any confidence that immigrant community members have in law enforcement.” Both Cortes and Tukwila police can agree that the department has "worked tirelessly over the past several years to develop and maintain relations with our large immigrant and refugee population,” including "a long history of not getting involved in immigration-related issues.” But with one serious error, those efforts could now be in jeopardy. "It almost makes me wish he didn't call the police," <a href="http://komonews.com/news/local/tukwila-police-face-backlash-after-immigrant-father-who-called-911-landed-in-ice-custody" target="_blank" title="">said</a> resident Karen Wendt at a packed Tukwila City Council meeting. And that’s exactly what police fear—if residents, especially immigrants—are too afraid to call police, it affects community safety overall. rss@dailykos.com (Gabe Ortiz) Deportation DeportationForce Deportations ICE Immigration ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement MassDeportation WilsonRodriguezMacarreno _1742771 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:09:26 +0000 Immigrant calls police to report possible intruder, gets arrested and turned over to ICE instead https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/2/13/1741090/-Immigrant-man-calls-police-to-report-possible-intruder-gets-arrested-and-turned-over-to-ICE-instead For the past few weeks, someone had been trying to break into Tukwila, Washington, resident Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno’s home and car. When he again saw someone trespassing on his property, he did what anyone else would do in the same situation: he called the police for help. But less than one hour later, he was the one in handcuffs, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/us/tukwila-police-ice-detain-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNN021318tukwila-police-ice-detain-trnd0732AMVODtop" target="_blank">because Rodriguez Macarreno is an undocumented immigrant</a>: <blockquote> Police arriving on the scene apprehended a trespasser, according to Rodriguez's attorney, Luis Cortes. Officers then put Rodriguez in handcuffs after he gave them his ID for what he thought was "report purposes," the lawyer said. Officers saw he had an outstanding warrant when they ran his information through the National Crime Information Center database. </blockquote> <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/tukwila-officers-turn-immigrant-over-to-ice-was-that-legal/" target="_blank">According to Officer Victor Masters of the Tukwila Police Department,</a> “it is standard procedure for Tukwila police to run victims, witnesses and suspects through NCIC to confirm their identity, Masters said. This procedure, in itself, is not unusual. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) and King County Sheriff’s Office do the same, according to spokesmen. What they don’t do is act on information in the database from immigration authorities”: <blockquote> Tukwila police don’t usually act on ICE information they see in NCIC either, Masters said, nor do they ask about immigration status. But when the officers on the scene radioed in Rodriguez Macarreno’s name to dispatchers, who ran it through NCIC, what popped up looked different. It was not just a note that ICE “was interested in speaking to the individual,” which is typical, according to Masters, but a warrant from the federal agency. </blockquote> But according to Rodriguez Macarreno’s attorney, it was not an ICE warrant signed by a judge, but rather an administrative one. The former must be honored. The agency often uses the latter in their attempts to get local police departments to hold immigrants so they can come pick them up to arrest them. So while “police told <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/tukwila-officers-turn-immigrant-over-to-ice-was-that-legal/">The Seattle Times</a> they did not have probable cause to arrest the trespasser,” Rodriguez Macarreno is now the one sitting in a detention facility. rss@dailykos.com (Gabe Ortiz) Deportation DeportationForce Deportations ICE Immigration ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement MassDeportations WilsonRodriguezMacarreno _1741090 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:47:11 +0000