"My friends got detained and my family needs me," the man told Judge Arwen Swink in Spanish through an interpreter. He said he just wanted time to sell his belongings and his car before leaving.
As of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, with 41,495 (71.7%) having no criminal convictions. This includes those with pending charges and others with no known criminal records.
As Phillips stated, âItâs a suppression of freedom of speech about an issue that I think should be shouted from the rooftops - unlawful, unconstitutional abductions of university students.â