His lawyers have insisted Daniel Ramirez Medina, the 23-year-old Dreamer in question, has no gang ties and no criminal record, and say he never should have been arrested since he was approved for tentative legal status under President Obama’s 2012 deportation amnesty.
But gang members aren’t eligible for the program, and the government says Mr. Ramirez not only had a gang tattoo, but said he used to “hang out” with the Sureno gang in California, fled that state to get away from gangs, and but still “hangs out” with the Paizas gang in Washington.
The government said his approval under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy has been revoked and he is now in deportation proceedings.
Mr. Ramirez’s lawyers, though, said the government’s evidence is flimsy.
They said the tattoo the government identified as gang-related says “La Paz BCS.” La Paz means peace, and BCS stands for Baja California Sur, where Mr. Ramirez was born, said Mark Rosenbaum, the lawyer at Public Counsel who’s part of Mr. Ramirez’s defense team.
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