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http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article35771469.html
BELLINGHAM
Local civil rights activists are accusing Bellingham police of racially profiling a 15-year-old boy during a June traffic stop that eventually landed the teen in a Tacoma immigrant detention center.
Police pulled over Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, 15, for driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street near downtown Bellingham at 10:40 p.m. on June 20, 2015. Lelo did not have a driver’s license, told police he was 18 and, when asked, said he was an undocumented immigrant, according to the police report.
Officers, unable to verify his identity, called U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who took Lelo into custody and later sent him to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, police say. He was released and brought home to his family in Mount Vernon the next night, family friends say, about 24 hours after the initial traffic stop.
On Friday morning, Sept. 18, Lelo walked into the Bellingham Police Department alongside representatives from several activist groups and handed police a formal complaint. The complaint accuses officers of racial profiling by asking Lelo his immigration status and violating Bellingham Police Department policy when they called Customs and Border Protection. It also accuses police of breaking federal law for complicity in attempting to deport an applicant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a national policy that exempts some immigrants from deportation if they entered the country under the age of 16.
“What we’re trying to highlight here is that this collaboration between local police and immigration enforcement should not happen. This is the road to detention.” said Maru Mora Villalpando, who represents an activist group called Latino Advocacy. “We should not have local police putting people into deportation proceedings.”
Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article35771469.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article35771469.html
BELLINGHAM
Local civil rights activists are accusing Bellingham police of racially profiling a 15-year-old boy during a June traffic stop that eventually landed the teen in a Tacoma immigrant detention center.
Police pulled over Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, 15, for driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street near downtown Bellingham at 10:40 p.m. on June 20, 2015. Lelo did not have a driver’s license, told police he was 18 and, when asked, said he was an undocumented immigrant, according to the police report.
Officers, unable to verify his identity, called U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who took Lelo into custody and later sent him to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, police say. He was released and brought home to his family in Mount Vernon the next night, family friends say, about 24 hours after the initial traffic stop.
On Friday morning, Sept. 18, Lelo walked into the Bellingham Police Department alongside representatives from several activist groups and handed police a formal complaint. The complaint accuses officers of racial profiling by asking Lelo his immigration status and violating Bellingham Police Department policy when they called Customs and Border Protection. It also accuses police of breaking federal law for complicity in attempting to deport an applicant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a national policy that exempts some immigrants from deportation if they entered the country under the age of 16.
“What we’re trying to highlight here is that this collaboration between local police and immigration enforcement should not happen. This is the road to detention.” said Maru Mora Villalpando, who represents an activist group called Latino Advocacy. “We should not have local police putting people into deportation proceedings.”
Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article35771469.html#storylink=cpy