New York City’s Law Department is taking a stand to support a 20-year-old Venezuelan migrant and former Queens high school student who was arrested and detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents last month.
José Luis Rojas Figuera was leaving an immigration hearing at a Lower Manhattan courthouse when it happened, and he’s now in an upstate detention center.
His situation bears a strong resemblance to the case of a 20-year-old Bronx student named “Dylan,” who was detained at immigration court on May 21, an arrest that sparked chaotic protests in the city.
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“He was surrounded by masked ICE agents”
Paige Austin, an attorney with the group Make the Road New York, is working to get her client released from what she claims was a trap…