Overview
- Maria Rosales, a 32-year-old DACA recipient, was arrested at Logan Airport when she tried to fly home after a Noah Kahan concert and has remained in ICE custody since July 10.
- Her attorney filed a habeas corpus petition and U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin issued an emergency order barring her transfer outside Massachusetts while the court case proceeds.
- ICE’s online detainee locator lists Rosales but does not name the facility where she is held, and the agency has not responded to media questions about the arrest.
- Rosales’s attorney says her DACA renewal has been pending since September 2023 and that the government is citing a June 2017 removal order; the same attorney represents another person detained at Logan the same day who appears in the ICE database at Plymouth County Correctional Facility.
- The case highlights how delays in immigration benefits and airport enforcement can expose long-standing DACA recipients to detention, and court action here could limit rapid transfers or deportations made after domestic airport arrests.