· Outside · By Kaelyn Lynch · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
Outside profiles climber and DACA recipient Ibrahim Cetindemir, who was detained for about forty hours while returning by train from successful Denali and Rainier climbs. Border officers treated a prior removal order as grounds to disregard his DACA status, but ICE later confirmed his eligibility and released him. Cetindemir describes professional treatment by individual officers while questioning why the status check took so long.
Shahid Haque supplied the legal context: DACA expressly covered some people with final removal orders, and revocation could not rest on a fact already disclosed in the approved application. The story turned an extraordinary climbing trip into a clear example of bureaucratic overreach along Montana's northern border.