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ICE Raids Pull In DACA Holders and Asylum Applicants as Defense Secures Rare Bond Win

A California judge approved $7,500 bond for Silvano Torres after accepting an argument that the BIA’s Q. Li precedent did not cover his case.

Overview

  • Silvano Torres, detained May 29 outside his Central Valley home and held at McFarland, was released June 25 on $7,500 bond, with ICE later calling his arrest an administrative error.
  • Torres’s attorney said the court agreed Q. Li did not apply because Torres has lived in the United States for more than two decades, illustrating a legal pathway some defenders are testing.
  • In Los Angeles, DACA beneficiary Paulo César Gamez was taken into custody, with his wife alleging agents surrounded him without showing a warrant and arrested him in front of their children.
  • At Salt Lake City International Airport, Venezuelan electrician Samuel González Polanco, who has an asylum application pending, was detained after agents pointed to tattoos they claimed signaled ties to the Tren de Aragua gang.
  • El Comercio reports more than 20 families have publicly described similar detentions since the latest ICE operations began.