· Univision · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
Univision reports that the Ninth Circuit temporarily stopped Audemio Orozco-Ramirez's imminent deportation after ICE arrested him at a routine check-in. The article reviews his alleged rape in immigration custody, Jefferson County's $125,000 civil settlement without an admission of liability, missing jail video, and his still-unanswered 2015 application for a U visa as a cooperating crime victim.
The emergency stay showed why Shahid's representation continued after the civil settlement. Orozco-Ramirez had no criminal record, a work permit, a wife and seven children, and years of regular check-ins, yet he was suddenly placed on a path to removal before his victim-visa request had been decided.