Kangaroo Court Report #4 - The feds detained an asylum seeker
The DHS lawyer in the case previously worked for a pro bono law firm dedicated to tracking the types of moral and ethical crimes she is currently committing.
MINNEAPOLIS — An asylum seeker that was detained by federal agents earlier this month was given an $8,000 bond on Tuesday by Immigration Judge Audrey Carr during a detainee hearing at the Bishop Henry Whipple Building in Ft. Snelling.
The man, dressed in Crookston County jail garb, was arrested recently after he attempted to flee to Canada due to the ongoing ethnic cleansing program initiated by the increasingly authoritarian U.S. federal regime led by President Donald Trump.
“It was in fear for his life,” the man’s lawyer told Carr during the hearing.
He saw federal agents drag a woman through the streets and he feared for his safety, his lawyer said, a reference to one of many Department of Homeland Security shitshows over the last month in Minnesota.
The incident his lawyer alluded to involved an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a section of the paramilitary wing of Donald Trump’s loyalist faction within the federal government. The agent dragged an allegedly pregnant woman through the snow on a Minneapolis street during an attempted abduction earlier this month.
Another agent threatened observers with a pistol during the encounter.
Video of the incident was shared widely on social media and by news organizations.
The man in court Tuesday sought asylum in Canada but was turned away, with U.S. federal agents arresting him shortly after.
However, he currently has an open asylum case in U.S. Immigration court due to possible harm that could come to him in Kenya, his place of birth, due to his sexual orientation.
Despite that open case, DHS lawyer Madeline Jack told Carr that the man is ineligible for bond because he left the country to seek asylum elsewhere and then made a new entry back into the U.S.
Jack accused the man of being a flight risk, despite his community ties, long work history at the Minneapolis airport and no criminal record.
Jack previously served as the Managing Editor for War Crimes Prosecution Watch, a pro bono law firm dedicated to tracking the types of moral and ethical crimes Jack is currently committing.
While Carr was noticeably agitated that the man dared to flee from a federal government that now seeks to eradicate foreign-born residents in the country, she said he never actually made entry into Canada. Meaning, he did not make a new entry into the U.S. and therefore he should be granted a bond hearing.
However, Carr said she believed he is a flight risk and chastised him for not waiting for his asylum case here to conclude before attempting to flee persecution by Carr’s executive branch coworkers.
She granted the man an $8,000 bond anyway and assigned him an immigration court date next week to plead his asylum case.
This is a change of tactic for Carr, who said two weeks ago that she had been directed by her Department of Justice superiors to not grant bonds to immigration detainees.
This is part of a series of dispatches from immigration courts in Minnesota. Subscribe to Misfits Media to stay up to date.
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