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It is so hot in
Seattle right now.

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When I say hot, I mean that
there is ice everywhere.

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Why immigration violations?

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Why it is?

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I mean, any one of us
would be very scared,

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especially when we know
what they're capable of.

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They're capable of killing
people when they feel like it.

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Why white little refugees?

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Why just things that I
don't know, like, person?

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People need to understand that
this is what is happening.

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Our democracy is long gone.

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That's Stacey Fitzpatrick, the
wife of Eduardo Aguirre, who

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was arrested by ICE on
July 23rd in West Seattle.

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As ICE agents arrested her

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husband, Fitzpatrick says
they did not present

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a judicial warrant
for his arrest.

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Agents said they were
arresting him for

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an immigration violation, even
though he had been pursuing

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a green card.

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I'm Enrique Cerna and
welcome to Chino y Chicano.

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Eduardo Aguirre worked
as a contractor.

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He was arriving to work
at a home in West Seattle

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when ICE agents
surrounded his vehicle.

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His arrest drew protests from
Washington Senator Patty Murray

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and 7th District Congresswoman
Pramila Jayapal.

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ICE activity and arrests
have been surging in the

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Seattle area in recent weeks.

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Get His Wife, Stacey
Fitzpatrick, talked with me

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about her husband's arrest
and how ICE moved quickly to

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take him out of Washington State
and transfer him to a

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detention center in Texas.

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Well, Stacey, thank
you so much for taking

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the time to talk to me.

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I appreciate it.

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I know that these are
tough times for you.

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Do you even know where
your husband is right now?

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At this point, I know
that he is in the El

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Paso Processing Center.

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So this is now his second
location in El Paso.

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Okay. And you know for
sure that he's there now?

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So I know for sure because,
well, because that's what

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my phone says when he calls.

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He's told me that.

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So now we are in communication.

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Sometimes there's
a big lag between

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when they're transporting
people between different

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facilities where you don't
hear from them for a while.

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We don't even really know
where his case is going to be.

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We know nothing.

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So our attorneys are sort of
waiting for that information

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to be entered so that they can
then enter their notice of

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appearance there and get going.

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So let's go back to the
day that this happened.

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That day, what was going on?

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So he was working on a
project in an area of

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Seattle called West Seattle.

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He had contracted with a
homeowner out there to do

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some remodeling on their
home in the morning he

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came he expressed a concern
about having to go to

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Home Depot so he went to
a store that's closer to

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our home where there's
kind of less ICE action

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and but it appears that
during the course of the

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day that he had to go buy
some materials from the Home

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Depot there in West Seattle.

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And from what I understand from
onlookers, he pulled into the

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parking lot.

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He got whatever he needed.

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And then I followed
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to the job site.

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And then he was apprehended

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at that time.

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You have rights.

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You don't need to
tell them anything.

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And we're not talking
just one or two agents

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that came up and did the
detaining and arresting him.

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I mean, we're talking
about a group of guys.

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A group of guys and
a lot of ICE folks.

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All pretty much had
their faces covered,

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as I understand.

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Yeah, which is, you know,
contrary to our law in

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the state of
Washington, by the way.

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They're not allowed to wear
masks, but of course they're

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doing whatever they want.

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So I've seen some of the video
of this that people had recorded

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and he cooperated, but they
also basically threatened that

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if he didn't, they were going
to smash the window on his car

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to get him out at that point.

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And you've seen all the
video too I guess what

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was your reaction when
you've seen these things

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he did exactly what we
had planned um so I could

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they're very hard to watch
because you can hear

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the fear the anxiety I mean any
one of us would be very

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scared especially when we know
what they're capable of they're

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capable of killing people when
they feel like it we had had

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discussions about we didn't
need to tell them anything that

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okay if they tell you get out of
the car get that car hey do you

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have a phone number you want
me to call um and I was really

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struck by I'm sorry I'm gonna
get a little no I understand

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I'm not scary but um really
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bravery of the people around
him, including the homeowner,

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who was the one who was
standing in front of the ICE

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vehicle trying to prevent
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And so I was struck also by
the bravery of just everyday

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people trying to do
the right thing.

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Well, the reason that we have
the video was because there

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were some amazing community,
I'll call them community

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activists, but they go
to locations where ICE

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is known to hang out and
try to racially profile

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people. And so this young woman
was at Home Depot and saw

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Eduardo leave, ICE leave
after them, and then

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she trailed after them.

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I'll call for you.

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I'm so sorry.

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And through the network of
that neighborhood and all the

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things, everyone came out to
try to do what they could

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to document it and to help
to protect Eduardo's rights.

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As you said, the two of
you had talked about this,

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knowing that things have
changed in our country and

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also that he was undocumented.

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But as I understood it, he
had applied for his green

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card. Tell me about that.

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We just got married
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Our anniversary was actually
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And, and we had started
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quickly after getting married.

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So we applied for the I-130,
which is like how you establish

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a family relationship.

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And then that was approved
with, you know, USCIS.

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That's the first step.

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And the second step in his
case was to file a petition

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for a waiver.

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And that was received.

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And in fact, we
got an appointment

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time for him to do his
biometrics at USCIS here

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in Tukwila.

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But as we all know,
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care one way or the other what
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process of um obtaining
legal residency that's true

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many people have been in
the process have even

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gone to appointments yeah
some people have gone

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to the appointment to
actually physically

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receive their green card and
are taken by ICE so this is

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this is where we're at it is so
hot in Seattle right now when

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And when I say hot, I mean
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And they kind of fly under
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because they're going to places
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of people aren't, they don't,
they're not seeing it the

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way that the Latino community
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It's almost as if we're
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universes kind of happening.

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So, I mean, what ICE has done,
I mean, they're being, I'm

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going to say smart, in that
they're trying to, like, do

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what they did with Eduardo.

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They're trying to sort of follow
him, you know, follow him to

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a quieter neighborhood to do
their deeds, rather than putting

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it on full blast in the middle
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Okay, so let's talk about
what happened to him

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after he was arrested.

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So he called me immediately,
and a funny number

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came up on my phone.

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But I picked it up, and it was
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And of course, immediately,
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There's only one reason why
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someone else's cell phone.

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So he told me, look,
I've got ice, and I'm

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in Tukwila right now.

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I need you to act pretty fast
because they're going to take

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me to Tacoma, which is where
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And so we hung up and I went to
work finding the appropriate

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attorney, figuring out our game
plan and all of that stuff.

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Now you're an attorney?

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I am.

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I'm a non-practicing
attorney, but I am a trained

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attorney and good standing
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So you have some knowledge about
what to do, but you have to get

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an immigration attorney, right?

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I do.

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And as it so happens, one
of my very best friends

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from law school here, and we
went to UW together, is an

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immigration attorney.

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And so I had the really, really,

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we had the really, really
good luck to have her at our

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disposal because, you know,
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occurred happened on a weekend,
and it's not by accident.

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This is like part of their
pattern and practice of trying

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to deprive people of the
ability to obtain counsel, to

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talk to their counsel, let
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their family and loved ones.

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Right. So one of the things
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which I think is happening to
others around the country that

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are being arrested, detained
and arrested, is the fact

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that suddenly they're being
shipped around quite a bit.

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So tell me about what
happened after you.

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So after we spoke, and I
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thing to talk about.

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Before we get to him being
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take them to the Tukwila
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But instead of doing their
intake, they spend a good

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amount of time trying to
get them to sign like

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a voluntary deportation
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Right um and of course the form
is in English and the tiny font

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like Eduardo like me and many
other people in their

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50s need
glasses to read um did

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not have glasses um and
they held him and I don't

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know whether this
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everyone or whether it was
a specific thing to him,

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but they held him for
about 10 hours, um,

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pressuring him up to like
20 agents in, in where, in

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the room that he was at
any given time, pressuring

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him and threatening him
with, with, they were

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going to beat him up if
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didn't sign the document.

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And we had talked a lot
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And he told them,
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wasn't going to be signing
anything without his lawyer or

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his wife, who's also a lawyer.

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And he didn't sign it.

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But from what I
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who do sign it, they're off.

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The next thing you know, to El
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the way to pick up other people.

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And then they're out to Mexico.

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Right they just and but
people like Eduardo who

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don't sign are then maybe
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facility maybe for a day
or two and then they are

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moved in Eduardo's
case in the middle of the

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night um to El Paso
and there was a big like

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kind of 48 hour period
where you had no idea where

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it was at all wow during that
period what was going through

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your mind as you're just
dealing with this they

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couldn't tell us anything
the GEO employees at

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you know they don't know
everything and those are

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the folks that work at
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so they were like well
it just says he's been

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released and i was like
well is that what does that

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mean does that mean he's
been moved to another

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facility and they were like
no it means he's going

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to Mexico and I was like
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logistically like okay
telling the family that

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answer any phone call
that you get doesn't

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matter if you recognize
the number or not um and

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here are the things to ask
him right and then also

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I had to go into like to
start okay if we don't

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know where he is where do
we file in a tr like an

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emergency filing for his
purpose like where do

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we do it coming up with a plan
with his attorney here um

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in another college I mean a law
school classmate of ours round

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down tabling, okay, well,
strategically, what are we

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going to do?

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Ultimately, we decided that we,

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since we didn't know his
whereabouts, that we

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were going to file
the TRO in D.C.

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DHS is in Washington,
D.C., so ICE

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is based in Washington,
D.C., so we thought,

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well, since we don't know
where he is, let's file it in

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the place where we know that in
this case that the person or the

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entity by whom he has been
detained, abducted, I

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would say, is based there.

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So I would say if I'm putting
on my hat as a judge, I

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would say, okay,
well, they are here.

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So I think that this is
an appropriate place.

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And ultimately, I mean, we

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withdrew it.

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We withdrew the
motion because then

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we figured out where
he really was.

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But the court was
on it and within

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and they had it, I think,
noted for oral argument,

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you know, with within
eight hours.

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So when we're talking about

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But habeas corpus in this
case, making a petition for

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that, that's basically that
the government has to have

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a court appearance, right?

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I mean, that's what the
Constitution would afford.

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But how that's playing out in
real time is not happening

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the way that most of us would
anticipate or would hope

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that it's being carried out.

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Yeah. And other
things like due process

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are being thrown out the
window at this point.

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Right. So and as we talked
about this, this is happening

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around the country that you've
been able to to detect.

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Right. The way like he's
being handled and then this

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whole thing about whether
you're even going to get a

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court appearance or be able
to have your attorney there.

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Yeah. And if you don't
know the legal system

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at all, you're you're.

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Yeah, you're it's
going to be real tough.

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Yeah. Now, it's really it

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was really interesting.

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Senator Patty Murray here had
made a statement calling for

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ICE to return him to Western
Washington for his proceedings.

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And she had the opportunity to
talk specifically about Eduardo

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in I guess they're called it's
like a spotlight hearings.

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They can't call it a
hearing since the Democrats

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are not the majority.

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But Senator Durbin had a
whole hearing about it.

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And it was so interesting to
watch it from beginning to end.

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They had all these experts
and people in the field,

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obviously the experience of
their constituents and other

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congresspeople and senators.

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Eduardo's situation and
what his experience has

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been is not unique at all.

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So everything that they talked
about are things that we are

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facing in our own specific case.

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It's pretty awe-inspiring how
efficient ICE has been with its

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kind of diabolical malevolence,
but how it is like an efficient

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machine, what they are doing
with those who they've detained

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and specifically what
they're doing to folks

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in Western Washington.

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What do you do now?

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We have to wait.

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So we're going to wait until we

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figure out who the judge is,
which specific court it is,

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because that is when our
attorneys can go into action.

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So, so on our end right now
what we're doing is furiously

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getting all the paperwork, all
the documents together that

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need to be submitted
with this particular

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hearing here in
Western Washington you'll have

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your bond hearing first in the
Habeas Corpus part of it because

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they're a little bit tied
together, even though they're

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separate proceeding
separate hearing.

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but in Texas they have them
all running concurrently so

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we're going to be preparing
for his merits case like

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I guess it's called so
basically the the you

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know the government's case for
removal right the same time

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that we're preparing for the
bond so it makes it very hard

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for the attorneys to, you
know, as you can imagine, it's

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very hard for the attorneys
and the clients to prepare

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for both of these things
happening at the same time.

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And as I understand it, they
can happen very, very fast.

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So everywhere that
they move them,

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you got to find you a
new attorney there.

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And as you can imagine,
it is not easy because

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Because immigration
attorneys, especially in

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places where there's large
detention facilities such

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as El Paso, are overwhelmed
by the need out there.

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And so it's not a matter of
them not wanting to do it.

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It is there's overwhelming
amount of need for people.

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I mean, imagine, I think the El
Paso Detention Center in Montana

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East holds 5,000, and they're
trying to augment that facility

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to hold another 3,000 or 8,000.

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I can't even
remember that a lot.

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So imagine that every
family for every one of

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those people are trying,
are descending upon the

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legal community in El Paso, the
immigration legal community,

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to have to represent them.

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So they are overwhelmed.

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And I'm very, very lucky
to have found an excellent

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attorney there to represent him.

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How did you and Eduardo meet?

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So he is a longtime
salsa dancer.

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He used to compete and has
been a longtime teacher

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and just a long time presence
in our salsa community.

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And we met salsa dancing
at a salsa social

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during the pandemic.

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As I understand it, you
both brought children

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to the marriage?

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He has one son who lives
in Mexico who is 24.

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And I have three children.

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I have a daughter who is
going into her freshman year

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of high school, and then one
son who is off in college

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in Denver, University of
Denver, and then a kid who's

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going off to UW in the fall.

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How's the family
holding up in this?

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It's causing them to sort
of lose faith in our

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Constitution and our government
to protect its people.

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And when I say it's people, all
the people that the Constitution

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applies to, which is everybody
who is in this country.

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Right. How about you?

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How are you holding up?

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I have moments of obviously
like real, real, real

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sadness and kind of despair.

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But like I have to sort of set
that aside because Eduardo needs

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me to be doing what I'm doing.

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I just have to keep going
forward with the legal process

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and then and also getting
the word out in the press,

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contacting politicians, talking
to people such as yourself

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with podcasts to just make
it visible because I'm in

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a position to talk, to
talk loudly and not without

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and without fear.

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What do you say to those people
that would say, OK, well, he

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was here without documentation?

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He was doing everything that he
could to obtain legal residency.

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There was no time where
he sort of was hiding and

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trying to not, you know,
trying to screw away.

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He has long paid his taxes.

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He is long, you know, I mean,
he's got a small business.

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He's important to our state.

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But putting aside that, I would
also say that, look, everyone

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here, regardless of where
they are from, are afforded

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protections under the
due process, under

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the due process and in
the Fifth Amendment

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of Constitution.

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We are all afforded that.

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So it doesn't mean just because
he came here without a visa

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over 20 years ago that it's
OK that he's deprived of

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his due process rights.

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Yeah so the due process of
price to everyone so but what I

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also realize is you know when
I sometimes read the comments

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to the news articles
that are out there right

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so and so forth there that
they it's that they

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don't believe fundamentally
that they should be

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subject to the
protections of the Constitution

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so if someone doesn't believe
that it's hard to have

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a rational conversation
um about what should or

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should not be if we can't
agree that um that he's

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got not just rights under
the Constitution but human

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rights right and he has
no criminal record right

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so he's got no criminal
record like and we've so

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during the process most
like lawyers that you

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know who are helping you
file your immigration

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documents they don't want
going to deal with like

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people with DUIs and
other problems because it

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makes it everything really
hard and they just don't want

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to do it.

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So, you know, they'll pull
a background check, even if

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you're like, I don't have
any criminal background.

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Of course we did that.

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And just ran a check even two
weeks ago, even though we

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know he doesn't, he just has no
criminal history whatsoever.

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but I spit out a statement
to Telemundo when they

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did their piece.

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They stated without any evidence

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to support their statement but
they said that he had received

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a DUI in Kansas in
the state of Kansas.

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So my husband has
never been to Kansas.

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He has never driven in Kansas.

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It was rather Today we were just

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talking about this.

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And he's like, the only places
I've ever driven are Washington

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State, Oregon, and Hawaii.

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Those are the only three
places I've ever driven a car.

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And I, you know, he
probably couldn't even

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point out Kansas on a map.

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But ICE is just
making things up.

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That's what they do.

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That's what they do and
so um so they will they

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will sort of find a lie
and then double down on

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the lie because that's what
they're doing and you know

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I said and Congresswoman
Jayapal said okay

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give it to us let's see
it let's see let's see

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this Eduardo Aguirre that
they arrested

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did in Kansas for DUI.

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Let's see if his fingerprints

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match up with that that
USCIS has from when Eduardo

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entered. And wouldn't
there be a mugshot?

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Wouldn't there be?

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Yeah. But they don't care.

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I think that what their
strategy seems to be, and

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it's effective with the
people who support what

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they're doing.

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They just ring ringing
the bell and then

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you can't ring the bell
it doesn't matter what

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that there's no evidence it
doesn't matter that they've

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not uh you know come
forth with anything um

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I've never had a DUI but I
imagine that you know there's

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cops involved there's mug
shots taken breathalyzer

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tests all these things
yeah right I mean and so

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I'm okay give it to us
but then there's another

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aspect of it was like
like it's a red herring,

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it doesn't matter.

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He could have a thousand DUIs.

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He is afforded even in
those circumstances

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with due process and
the jurisdiction

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in which he is a resident,
where he was apprehended,

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where he lives, where
his business is located.

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You know, so the
fact that, okay,

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we're not saying
that like, you know,

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oh, just let out.

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I mean, that would be
wonderful, but we're not saying

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that there is no process
that has to happen.

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Okay, we already were here.

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We're here in the process.

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So I'm not, we
can't say that the,

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you know, that shouldn't be.

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What we're saying is
he should be afforded

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the due process in
the Ninth Circuit

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here in the state of
Washington so he can have

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access to, you know, not
just his attorneys here,

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but also his family
and support system

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and everything else.

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And how is he holding up
when you talk to him?

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You know, Eduardo is, and I
say this about him often,

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he's just unflappable he really
is he has his moments of despair

485
00:24:08,769 --> 00:24:13,145
I know it where he's really low
but he is a very stoic person

486
00:24:13,145 --> 00:24:17,640
he's a very like unlike myself
like a glass half full person

487
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,316
which is why he complements
me so well um he's very

488
00:24:22,316 --> 00:24:27,044
positive he tries to sort of
he's a very strong guy so he's

489
00:24:27,044 --> 00:24:31,336
not kind of you know in his bed
crying there's a lot of people

490
00:24:31,336 --> 00:24:36,471
who are um this is a perfectly
good reason to crawl up in your

491
00:24:36,471 --> 00:24:40,355
bunk and despair um but
he's holding up I would

492
00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:43,515
say remarkably well he
knows that we're doing

493
00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:47,595
everything that we can to
make sure that he gets the

494
00:24:47,595 --> 00:24:50,538
representation that he deserves.

495
00:24:51,999 --> 00:24:55,758
You know, you have been a
presence, such as on this

496
00:24:55,758 --> 00:24:59,057
podcast and elsewhere,
to get the word out.

497
00:24:59,057 --> 00:25:01,700
What do you want people
to hear about this?

498
00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:05,796
I think I want the
non-immigrant community

499
00:25:05,796 --> 00:25:08,298
to hear what's happening.

500
00:25:08,298 --> 00:25:11,719
because like I said earlier,
I feel like there is a

501
00:25:11,719 --> 00:25:15,136
sort of a parallel universe
where they are maybe,

502
00:25:15,136 --> 00:25:17,961
even though it's widely reported
in the press, but they're not

503
00:25:17,961 --> 00:25:18,451
seeing it.

504
00:25:18,451 --> 00:25:21,625
They're not seeing it in
their community up close.

505
00:25:21,625 --> 00:25:25,617
And that I just want people
to see like, this is what our

506
00:25:25,617 --> 00:25:27,909
government is doing
to the best of us.

507
00:25:27,909 --> 00:25:29,605
This is what they're doing.

508
00:25:29,605 --> 00:25:31,380
This is what they're capable

509
00:25:31,380 --> 00:25:37,603
of. I think people still
are hanging on to the

510
00:25:37,603 --> 00:25:44,500
belief that our government
does the right thing.

511
00:25:46,479 --> 00:25:50,184
Um and I think that they
need to know what is happening

512
00:25:50,184 --> 00:25:52,000
that they that ICE will lie

513
00:25:53,179 --> 00:25:57,028
that ICE will about things that
you've done or not done um

514
00:25:57,028 --> 00:26:00,384
that they will detain you for
10 hours things that we that

515
00:26:00,384 --> 00:26:02,663
are against our
own laws right we don't

516
00:26:02,663 --> 00:26:03,660
do that to criminals

517
00:26:05,499 --> 00:26:14,159
that they're not,
warrants, forget it.

518
00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:16,200
That is not even
a thing anymore.

519
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,855
You don't need a warrant
anymore to just break

520
00:26:17,855 --> 00:26:18,596
into someone's car.

521
00:26:18,596 --> 00:26:21,392
Not because a judge says
you don't, but because they

522
00:26:21,392 --> 00:26:24,376
decided that they're just
going to dispense with that.

523
00:26:24,376 --> 00:26:25,913
And I wouldn't be surprised
to know that they're

524
00:26:25,913 --> 00:26:27,640
forcibly entering people's
homes without warrants,

525
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,067
to know that they're forcibly
entering people's homes without

526
00:26:32,067 --> 00:26:36,867
warrants, which is an obvious
derogation of the Constitution.

527
00:26:36,867 --> 00:26:41,419
I want wider society to
understand what is happening and

528
00:26:41,419 --> 00:26:44,478
if it can happen, if not
everybody has protections

529
00:26:44,478 --> 00:26:47,097
under due process and
of our Constitution,

530
00:26:47,097 --> 00:26:47,923
then nobody does.

531
00:26:47,923 --> 00:26:49,682
The next thing,
they're going for, you

532
00:26:49,682 --> 00:26:52,991
know, I'm a naturalized citizen,
they're coming for us right if

533
00:26:52,991 --> 00:26:56,400
you have green card come for
you and the next thing you know

534
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,096
it's going to be just
regular citizens who were

535
00:26:58,096 --> 00:26:59,798
born here in the United
States they're going to

536
00:26:59,798 --> 00:27:01,784
be coming for them but I
just read an article and

537
00:27:01,784 --> 00:27:03,817
I don't know if it was Wall
Street Journal or what

538
00:27:03,817 --> 00:27:07,680
but they um but you know
ICE is combing people's

539
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,640
social media accounts and
so to then try to

540
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,691
to, against U.S.

541
00:27:12,691 --> 00:27:13,665
citizens, U.S.

542
00:27:13,665 --> 00:27:17,499
citizens, and they're not doing
it for their health, they're

543
00:27:17,499 --> 00:27:20,471
doing this for some reason,
to then later try to,

544
00:27:20,471 --> 00:27:23,298
try to strip them of
their citizenship, to say

545
00:27:23,298 --> 00:27:25,576
that they're unpatriotic,
or whatever it is that

546
00:27:25,576 --> 00:27:27,798
they're going to say,
right, that they're, that

547
00:27:27,798 --> 00:27:31,351
they're co-conspirators in some
terrorist organization, whatever

548
00:27:31,351 --> 00:27:34,855
they're going to fabricate and
say that this is that this

549
00:27:34,855 --> 00:27:39,219
people need to understand that
this is what is happening our

550
00:27:40,239 --> 00:27:43,025
democracy is long gone so
when people are talking

551
00:27:43,025 --> 00:27:45,876
about we're slipping and
sliding out of democracy

552
00:27:45,876 --> 00:27:51,883
it's over it's over and so the
only hope that I have and that

553
00:27:51,883 --> 00:27:55,817
I think that most people
are hanging on to is first

554
00:27:55,817 --> 00:27:58,105
of all the ability of our
federal judges I'm not

555
00:27:58,105 --> 00:28:01,361
talking about immigration
judges because that's a

556
00:28:01,361 --> 00:28:05,163
whole different thing but
our federal judges um

557
00:28:05,163 --> 00:28:09,352
to be to hold up the
Constitution right

558
00:28:09,352 --> 00:28:14,199
the lawyers but also um the our
you know and our congress

559
00:28:14,199 --> 00:28:18,778
congresspeople that you
know I was we had our um

560
00:28:18,778 --> 00:28:23,356
our primaries here the
other day right and like

561
00:28:23,356 --> 00:28:26,488
our only hope is like we've got
to vote for the people who are

562
00:28:26,488 --> 00:28:29,421
going to
stop Donald Trump and his

563
00:28:29,421 --> 00:28:32,634
administration in their
tracks that is that is

564
00:28:32,634 --> 00:28:34,535
our hope.

565
00:28:34,535 --> 00:28:37,106
Yeah. Stacey, can
we stay in contact?

566
00:28:37,106 --> 00:28:40,096
I'd like to continue to
follow his story and

567
00:28:41,459 --> 00:28:43,556
where he's at and
what's happening.

568
00:28:43,556 --> 00:28:45,020
Yeah, I would love it too.

569
00:28:45,020 --> 00:28:45,652
Thank you.

570
00:28:45,652 --> 00:28:48,208
And I appreciate you
taking the time to talk

571
00:28:48,208 --> 00:28:48,567
to me.

572
00:28:48,567 --> 00:28:51,015
I know that this is a
real stressful time,

573
00:28:51,015 --> 00:28:53,239
but I appreciate you
taking the time to talk to

574
00:28:53,239 --> 00:28:55,190
me. I know that there's a
lot of stories out there.

575
00:28:55,190 --> 00:28:56,912
Yeah. And so the fact
that you would spend this

576
00:28:56,912 --> 00:28:58,564
time with me to talk
about Eduardo's specific

577
00:28:58,564 --> 00:28:59,519
story is very meaningful.

578
00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:00,357
Thank you.

579
00:29:00,357 --> 00:29:03,250
Well, I hope that
Eduardo gets his day

580
00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:06,798
in court and also that
he's safe wherever he is

581
00:29:06,798 --> 00:29:09,074
and that your family
gets reunited sometime

582
00:29:09,074 --> 00:29:09,932
soon. All right.

583
00:29:09,932 --> 00:29:11,837
Stacy Fitzpatrick,
I appreciate it.

584
00:29:11,837 --> 00:29:12,625
I appreciate you.

585
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:13,096
Thank you.

586
00:29:13,096 --> 00:29:18,376
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