{"id":22079,"date":"2019-10-23T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22079"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:27:33","slug":"media-illegal-workers-lawsuit-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/23\/media-illegal-workers-lawsuit-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims of Retribution by ICE Collapse Under the Weight of the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Days after the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans, attorneys held a press conference<\/a> to announce a lawsuit on behalf of five workers allegedly injured at the construction site. According to personal injury attorney Daryl Gray, Delmer Ramirez-Palma was detained by immigration authorities two days after speaking \u201cabout the tragic events\u201d to a Spanish-language station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe is currently detained. He is injured. And we are\nfighting his deportation,\u201d said Gray, who claimed his deportation symbolizes\n\u201cthe underbelly of America\u201d and fighting it is \u201cpart of a new civil rights\nmovement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Young, a spokesperson for the law firm representing the immigrant workers, told CNN<\/a> that Gray and other lawyers \u201cweren’t able to talk to him to see if he received medical treatment\u201d after his initial arrest and had not been seen by a doctor. Gray also claimed in his Oct. 18 press conference that Ramirez \u201cneeded surgery\u201d due to the injuries suffered in the collapse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media bought and re-sold the story<\/a> of an \u201cinjured worker\u201d being victimized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the lawyers were selling \u2013 even if the facts proved it was pure fiction. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one point of agreement between the lawyers\nand immigration officials – that Ramirez is a Honduran national currently held\nin ICE detention. An ICE statement noted Ramirez was ordered deported back to\nHonduras by a federal immigration judge in February 2016. It is unclear whether\nthe other plaintiffs also are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Cox, a regional ICE spokesman, said the charge\nof retributive arrest and denial of medical treatment by the lawyers \u201csimply\nfalse.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are just additional examples of falsehoods told\nabout this agency that irresponsibly spread fear through misinformation,\u201d Cox\ntold CNN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it was not ICE who initially detained Ramirez on Oct. 14, but agents from U.S. Border Patrol called in by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers. Days after the accident in which he was so injured as to require surgery (as his lawyers claim), Ramirez spotted fishing without a license at the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and when asked for identification, he gave USFW officers \u201cforeign citizenship documentation,\u201d which prompted them to call Border Patrol, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That brings up a few questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did Ramirez, whom his lawyers claim was so injured\nas to now need surgery, manage to travel all the way to a refuge to go fishing?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the chances that the Forest Service officers\nwere aware that Ramirez talked about the \u201ctragic events\u201d to a Spanish-language\nstation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or how would they know, until they encountered him, of\nthe standing deportation order and his illegal status?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facts of the case are becoming clearer each day, including the fact that the real \u201cunderbelly of America\u201d are the personal injury lawyers who claim to be seeking justice when all they really want is a quick buck and the elitist corporate media who put fake news over a real search for truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Days after the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans, attorneys held a press conference to announce a lawsuit on behalf of five workers allegedly injured at the construction site. According to personal injury attorney Daryl Gray, Delmer Ramirez-Palma was detained by immigration authorities two days after speaking \u201cabout the tragic<\/p>\n

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