Immigration Holds are on the Rise
Posted on Jun 3, 2014 4:09pm PDT
Under President Obama's directives, Los Angeles Police Department and
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are in cooperation with the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to place an automatic immigration
hold on arrested individuals who are either illegal or out of status.
For example, if you are arrested for simple first time Drunk Driving and
illegal in the United States, after your arrest and processing, you will
be transferred to Immigration Detention. While you are in detention, you
have the right to seek immigration bail so you get out on bond. Illegal
aliens who are eligible for prosecutorial discretion, asylum, cancellation
of removal, adjustment of status, NACARA or other reliefs can get out
of Custody in Los Angeles.
Typical arrest involves County Custody at the downtown Los Angeles Twin
Towers Facility at 450 Bauchet St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. When county
custody time ends, Immigration gets a hold of the arrested person who
gets transported to the downtown facility on Alison Street and Los Angeles
Street at the basement of the 300 N. Los Angeles Street building. At this
point one must act fast, because within 24 hours the detainee either gets
transferred to Adelanto Detention Center, Theo Lacy Facility or Irvine
Musick Detention Facility or gets removed from the United States.
It is at this time that you need experienced, skilled and top notch attorneys
to save you from detention with immigration bond and schedule a court
hearing in immigration court so that you can get immigration relief depending
on your family traits, country conditions, or other important relevant
facts which will ultimately set you for acquiring your residency in the
United States.
According to the
New York Times
report, by Ginger Thompson and Sarah Cohen, under President Obama's
administration, two-thirds of the nearly two million removal cases involve
people who had committed minor offenses such as traffic violations. Only
twenty percent of those removal cases involved serious drug cases or violent
offenses. People who have serious cases can get state court reliefs to
reduce or vacate their convictions, depending on the facts of each case
and qualifications. At the Agopoglu Law Corp., PLC we do handle post-conviction
matters as we are experienced criminal attorneys who know the relationship
between immigration laws and consequences for a the guilty or no contest
plea that causes a predicament for your stay in the United States.