Federal judge orders ICE not to remove trans migrant seeking asylum from Washington detention facility

A national justice successful Oregon connected Tuesday issued an bid barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from removing a Mexican asylum seeker from a Washington detention facility, according to section reports.

The migrant, a 24-year-old transgender pistillate identified arsenic "O-J-M" successful tribunal documents, was arrested extracurricular a Portland courtroom connected Monday and transferred to the Northwest ICE Processing Center successful Tacoma, Washington. 

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio, a President Joe Biden appointee, besides demanded that ICE supply the nonstop day and clip of the removal from Portland and explicate wherefore it was deemed instantly necessary.

Judge Amy Margaret Baggio speaks during her Senate judiciary information hearing. On Tuesday she issued an bid barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from removing a Mexican asylum seeker from a Washington detention facility, according to section reports. (U.S. Senate)

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Baggio’s bid was prompted aft O-J-M’s attorneys said they were not alert of their client’s determination and filed a habeas petition, a ineligible petition asking a tribunal to find whether a person’s detention oregon imprisonment is lawful. 

The migrant’s attorney, Stephen Manning, of Immigrant Law Group, told OPB that O-J-M was processed into the Tacoma detention center, but helium had not been granted entree to her since her transfer.

An aerial presumption of detainees exercising successful an outdoor recreation country astatine the Northwest ICE Processing Center. A national justice successful Oregon connected Tuesday issued an bid barring ICE from removing a Mexican asylum seeker from the facility, according to section reports. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Her attorneys said O-J-M was abducted and raped successful Mexico due to the fact that of her sex individuality and intersexual predisposition and was seeking asylum connected those grounds. 

"They threatened to termination her due to the fact that O-J-M is simply a transgender woman," her habeas petition states, per OPB. "Fearing for her life, she fled and sought asylum successful the United States successful September 2023."

During a mandatory tribunal proceeding for her asylum lawsuit successful Portland connected Monday, ICE attorneys moved to disregard O-J-M’s lawsuit entirely—effectively stripping her of some the lawsuit and the ineligible protections it provided. Afterward, ICE agents apprehended O-J-M. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Oregon sanctuary laws forestall it from having semipermanent migration detention facilities, and -- speech from impermanent holding cells astatine the Portland ICE bureau -- the nearest immigration detention halfway is the Tacoma facility.

OPB reported that O-J-M sought asylum astatine a larboard of introduction on the California-Mexico border, wherever she was arrested, detained and released. Since then, O-J-M has attended ICE check-ins and filed her ceremonial asylum assertion successful February. In April, migration officials began removal proceedings against O-J-M, the outlet reports, citing the migrant’s attorneys.

Manning told Willamette Weekly that his lawsuit had not committed a transgression portion successful the U.S.

During a mandatory tribunal proceeding for her asylum lawsuit successful Portland connected Monday, ICE attorneys moved to disregard O-J-M’s lawsuit entirely—effectively stripping her of some the lawsuit and the ineligible protections it provided. Afterward, ICE agents apprehended O-J-M.

That led to Innovation Law Lab Attorney Jordan Cunnings, who besides represents O-J-M, saying the apprehension was a "dangerous effort by ICE to circumvent owed process, velocity up deportations, and eviscerate the close to asylum."

A idiosyncratic holds an upside down US emblem during the "Tacoma May Day - Stand Up for Worker and Immigrant Rights" march and rally extracurricular the Northwest ICE Processing Center successful Tacoma, Washington connected May 1, 2025.  (Jason Redmond / AFP)

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"This unethical behaviour goes against the values we clasp arsenic Oregonians, ensuring that everyone is welcomed and included successful our state," Cunnings said, per KOIN.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said that the metropolis "stands unwavering successful its committedness to sanctuary policies," adding that Portland "will not obstruct lawful national enforcement operations," per Willamette Weekly. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to ICE and Homeland Security for comment.