Ramirez underwent two background checks to obtain and renew his DACA status. Neither turned up any indication of gang activity. To the contrary, Ramirez moved from CA to WA to *avoid* gangs.

Doesn’t matter, ICE said. We’re still going to deport you for being “gang-affiliated.”

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 17, 2018

A judge tore into ICE for lying, ordering the government to restore Ramirez’s DACA status and barring it from claiming that he was “gang-affiliated.” He slammed ICE’s case as

•“completely contradictory”
•based on “no evidence”
•”most troubling”
•”arbitrary and capricious” pic.twitter.com/8PXttDu53D

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 17, 2018

The judge, a Bush appointee, also found that ICE had egregiously violated Ramirez’s right to due process.

When Homan praises officers who “defend this nation,” he’s talking about people like this—ICE agents who set up innocent people and lie in court. https://t.co/U2u25mRvio

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 17, 2018