A federal judge has declined to dismiss the remaining claims against Frederick County officials following a woman's arrest on a civil immigration warrant in 2008.
Earlier this year, attorneys for the county asked the judge to dismiss the remaining portions of a lawsuit filed in 2009 by Roxana Orellana Santos. Santos had also filed a motion seeking to amend her original complaint after the case has wound its way through the federal court system for the last six years.
In an opinion last week, Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. denied the county's motion for dismissal because Santos' attorneys will be allowed file an amended complaint.
On Oct. 7, 2008, Santos was eating lunch outside the Common Market when the two deputies saw her, stopped their car and questioned her about her immigration status, even though she had broken no laws, her attorneys said.
She was jailed for 37 days before she was released under the supervision of immigration authorities, according to court records.
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3 comments:
Civil matter? I think not! Illegal entry is a criminal matter. And I hate to bust bubbles but no criminal immigrants have Rights. American citizens do.
Blah blah blah blah-blah-blah.
Is she illegally in this country? Then she shouldn't have any right to protest it.
Maybe the Judge should be locked up, then when he gets out he is stuck with this illegal alien and her family for the next 20 years.
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