The battle of deportation of a Somali man breaks a window of how ice works in Alaska

The federal immigration authorities are trying to deport a Somali asylum seeker who lives in Anchorage, since his lawyers argue that it should not be retained because their country is on a list of nations that the United States have determined are too dangerous to return To migrants.

The 27 -year -old oak salad is one of the five people arrested in Alaska for immigration and the application of customs so far this year, in the midst of a national immigration repression ordered by President Donald Trump.

Federal lawyers representing immigration authorities in the case say that the salad has been ordered deported since 2023 and must be eliminated from the states of Sinito in an imminent way.

On February 7, Salad’s lawyers questioned their arrest in a federal court here, saying that his government control was illegal because he had met all legal requirements and, according to the law, cannot be deported.

Salad’s lawyer, Margaret Stock, wrote in a court that presents that in her 35 years of practicing the immigration law, “I had never seen Ice detain a person in this circumstance.”

“The expensive disaster that ICE has created is evident from the history of the events in this case,” he wrote.

The lawyers representing the United States government in the case rejected an interview application.

The United States Prosecutor’s Office in Anchorage said in a statement that “he works together with the associated federal agencies to defend the nation’s immigration laws.”

The Court fight breaks a window in complicated immigration procedures often opaque, and reveals the resources that the Government has dedicated to its efforts to deport the salad, a home caregiver assisted by anchor.

The repression of immigration of the Trump administration has seen publicized raids and mass deportations in cities in the United States, but has been quieter in geographically isolated isolated Alaska. In mid -February, 41,169 people were in ice custody nationwide, According to NBC News. The administration has repeatedly said that it is deporting people with criminal records in the United States, using official social networks channels to show the arrests of undocumented persons accused of serious crimes.

The Daily News obtained the names of All people collected by ice in the state So far this year through prison records. Only one of the five seemed to have a criminal record in Alaska, a sentence for minor crime for requesting a driver’s license without the citizenship state 15 years ago. The Federal Immigration Agency pays the State $ 212 per day to house the immigration detainees, which while they are in ICE custody are not accused of a crime but of violations of the Civil Immigration Code. The detainees are dressed in the prison attire, sometimes chained and treated like any other inmate in the Anchorage prison.

None of the other four detained people, which include Mexican and Guatemalan citizens, are still detained in prisons or Alaska prisons. It is not clear where they are now.

The oak salad Ahmed has never been accused of a crime, either in the United States or Somalia, according to judicial presentations.

The Salad saga is a testimony of the changing landscape of the application of the immigration of the Trump era, which has taken the 27 -year -old to jail, living in a land of detention of anyone between deportation and a life in Anchorage.

According to documents from the Federal Court, Salad entered the United States through the Mexican border in December 2022 and requested asylum. Initially, his claim to fear his country of origin and his government was credible, according to his lawyers. But his asylum claim was later denied at a hearing in which he had no lawyer, according to a memorandum filed in his case by his lawyers. The salad then presented an appeal, which was also denied.

The Government ordered that the salad was deported in May 2023. But because the salad was from Somalia, ICE could not send it back due to the “chaotic, violent and dysfunctional conditions” in their country of origin, wrote its lawyer in A judicial presentation. He was arrested during the time that immigration detainees can be legally retained, then released in an “supervision order” on November 28, 2023, because “it was not likely that he was deported to Somalia in the reasonably predictable future and his continuous arrest would have been unconstitutional, ”argues the presentation of the court of his lawyers.

He was ordered to register with the immigration authorities more than a year later, on December 18, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas, according to presentations of government lawyers representing immigration authorities.

Meanwhile, the salad moved to Alaska and got work as a caregiver in an assisted life house, according to cases of cases. He lived in an apartment in Anchorage.

In December 2024, the salad flew back to Texas, exhausting its savings, for its registration required on December 18 with the application of immigration, according to the presentations of its lawyer, who entered the airline tickets as evidence. But initially the check-in was not registered by the government. When it was discovered that an “immigration fugitive” to high priority for deportation, according to government presentations in the case.

His lawyers rejected that notion, writing in the judicial documents that “the fugitives do not spend their savings flying 4,000 miles to inform according to those indicated”, to the immigration authorities in Texas, in judicial presentations.

In January, with a lawyer who helped him, the salad requested a temporary protected status, that people from a brief list of countries that the United States consider too dangerous and unstable for resettlement can obtain. The temporary protected state prohibits deportation, and Somalia is included among eligible countries, up to at least 2026.

The list of countries eligible for temporary protected status is shortening: last month, the Trump administration announced that Venezuelans would lose the protected state – A movement that is being challenged in court. And Thursday, The administration cut Haiti from state.

On February 5, the salad was arrested in Anchorage by ice agents.

In his application documentation, including as part of his federal case, Roble said he had never been in jail in the United States. He said he had been imprisoned for two months in Somalia for participating in political demonstrations against the government.

The salad was transferred from Anchorage to Texas on February 7, and then returned only a few days later to appear at a federal court hearing this week. The government is spending important resources in the case of salad, they allege judicial presentations.

“Until now, ICE has bought three airline tickets to fly two ice officers plus Mr. Anchorage Salad to Texas,” Stock wrote in a presentation of the Court. “Then ICE had to buy three airline tickets to fly two ice officers plus Mr. Texas Salad to Anchorage. And the ice continues to incur detention expenses. However, salad is clearly not a “immigration fugitive.” The continuous arrest of Mr. Salad is, therefore, illegal, without purpose and expensive. “

Teresa Coles-Davila is a Texas immigration lawyer who said she is familiar with Salad’s case, although it is not a party. For her, it seems that the ice is “digging in the heels, and are doing everything they can for the optics, because they have now invested a lot of time and money in it.”

The court held a probative hearing on Wednesday, but has not ruled the legality of salad arrest. Remains in the Anchorage prison.