Gustavo Alzate, a 34-year-old property manager for a New York real estate firm, was desperate after federal agents brought him in chains to a New Jersey jail to await a hearing on deportation charges. The Colombian immigrant used a jailhouse hotline to call in every day to the New York immigration court to find out when he would get a hearing before a judge. “For a long time, I was told there was no record of my case or me with the court,” he later said in court papers. “No one ever told me when my Notice to Appear form was […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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