ICE emails show how agency chief halted deportation after 'Abolish ICE' activist's request
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EXCLUSIVE: Internal emails from the top levels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), obtained by Fox News, show how the acting head of the agency granted a temporary stay of deportation earlier this year for an illegal immigrant with a criminal record – following a request from a left-wing immigration activist made earlier the same day.
Tania Mattos, a policy director at Freedom for Immigrants with a history of activism related to immigration, and whose own profile has described her as a former recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, wrote to Angela Kelley, a senior immigration counselor at the Department of Homeland Security on June 7, appealing for a stay of deportation for Marvin Jerezano-Peña, who she said was in ICE detention and scheduled to be deported. Mattos has been a supporter of the "Abolish ICE" movement, which seeks to scrap immigration detention. In 2020, she tweeted that she was "unapologetically #AbolishDetention #AbolishICE #AbolishPrisons." She did not respond to Fox News' request for comment.More Related News