Legal Opinion
Morales v. Chadbourne
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided January 24, 2017No. C.A. No. 12-301-M-LDAPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN J. McCONNELL, JR., United States District Judge.
Ada Morales was born in Guatemala, and became a naturalized United States citizen on September 11, 1995 under her maiden name, Ada Amavilia Cabrera. She has a social security number and a United States passport. Despite this, Ms. Morales was held at the state prison on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) detainer that was issued solely based on her Hispanic last name and her Guatemalan birthplace. This twenty-four hour illegal detention revealed dysfunction of a constitutional proportion at both the state and…
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