Lack Of Accountability Taints Morton's Leadership In U.S. ICE

John Morton
Assistant Secretary of ICE

ICE officials wrongdoing lacks accountability in deportation cases

By H. Nelson Goodson
November 28, 2010

Newark, New Jersey - On November 16, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) officials confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officials erred in the removal of New Jersey resident Moises Mory Lamas, 55, who was deported almost three months ago. Mory Lamas was deported to Peru after more than a decade of challenging his removal due to a minor violation of a state law.
On November 3, CIS sent Mory Lamas a letter to his New Jersey residence granting him an interview on November 16, for temperary residence. In this case, he had been already deported. His wife Ruth Mory, their Attorney Glen Troublefield and a long time friend and interpreter Luz La Torre showed up for the Mory Lamas' interview. They told the CIS official that Mory Lamas had been deported, the official immediately called her supervisor and both admitted that Mory Lamas shouldn't have been deported before the interview. The CIS officials were going to contact ICE about the unlawful deportation and were expected to decide soon, if they would request for Mory Lamas to return to the U.S. for an interview, according to Ruth Mory, Troublefield and La Torre, explained Mory Lamas in an interview from Peru.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Project. The temperary residency case had been pending, thus by federal law preventing his removal from the U.S. Mory Lamas informed ICE deportation officials to check his Amnesty pending case, but they failed to do so.
On September 9, despite his pending petition for amnesty and residency, ICE Deportation Officer Catherine Brantley decided to deport Mory Lamas to Peru. On August 12, three ICE agents following the orders of Brantley took Mory Lamas to the Peruvian Consulate in Patterson, New Jersey to get Acting Consul Alejandro Beoutis Candahuana to force Mory Lamas to surrender his Peruvian passport to the ICE agents, while signing a voluntary departure agreement without a lawyer present or any other options. Mory Lamas is not a Peruvian criminal or was wanted in Peru for a crime warranted to be force to return to Peru.
Peruvian Acting Consul Beoutis Candahuana, and three ICE agents were identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge along with their official capacity under the names.
Since the incident, Mory Lamas filed a complaint with Peru government against Acting Consul Beoutis Candahuana. After several protests outside the Peru Consulate in Patterson, Acting Consul Beoutis Candahuana was demoted and assigned other duties for his alleged incompetence and unscrupulous agreement with the three ICE agents.
ICE deportation officers definately committed a wrongdoing by deporting Mory Lamas and not following John Morton's, Assistant Secretary of ICE decision not to deport undocumented immigrants with minor violations or who had immigrantion pending cases. A lack of accountability for any wrongdoing by ICE officers under Morton's leadership has tainted his ability to lead ICE.
On June 30, Morton send a memo to all ICE officers in the U.S. about a new directive from the White House. ICE should use their limited resources to deport immigrants with serious crimes, instead of deporting long time immigrants that haven't committed serious crimes. On August 20, Morton's directive to ICE officials was to dimiss cases of deportation against immigrants who have a credible immigration case pending and who hadn't committed a serious crime. Under Morton's directives, Mory Lamas qualified and had committed no serious crime.
As of today, Morton nor ICE has released any public comment regarding the Mory Lamas mishap and controversial case. Copies of articles from Hispanic News Network USA regarding Mory Lamas have been sent to Morton and top ICE executives via e-mail.

Related article: NJ: ICE erred in deporting Moises Mory Lamas to Peru before CIS held a petition Amnesty hearing for temperary residence http://bit.ly/9RidGk

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Telemundo Airs Moises Mory Deportation Plight, ICE Agents Confiscated Peruvian Passport With Peru Consul Approval

Moises Mory Lamas

ICE agents confiscating Peruvian passport from Moises Mory Lamas with Peru Consul approval could end up as an international incident.

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 29, 2010

Lima, Peru - On Wednesday, Moises Mory Lamas, who was deported on September 9th from the United States of America to Lima, confirmed during an interview by Telemundo news agency that three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confiscated his Peruvian passport inside the Peru Consulate in Newark, New Jersey. (Interview video link: http://bit.ly/deU3ZJ)
On August 12, three ICE agents took Peruvian citizen Mory Lamas to the Peru Consulate in Paterson, from an ICE office he was reporting as required, so Consul Alejandro Beoutis could approve his deportation. Mory Lamas alleged, Consul Beoutis told him he had to surrender his Peruvian passport to ICE, or face legal authorization for ICE to deport him anyway from the Peru government, if he wouldn't comply. He said, that afterwards ICE agents took him home and confiscated his Peruvian passport, as approved and mandated by Consul Beoutis.
A Consulate official has denied that Beoutis or the Consulate was forcing Mory Lamas to give up his Peruvian passport, but an official Peruvian Consulate Act (agreement for voluntary departure) signed by Beoutis and three ICE agents in Spanish confirms otherwise. The Mory Lamas family members alleged, Beoutis and the Consulate might have been provided certain services from the U.S. government for Beoutis cooperation, which they deemed inappropriate.
Mory Lamas is trying to meet with the Peruvian Embassador to file a complaint against Consul Beoutis and is requesting an investigation leading to an agreement by Consul Beoutis to have his Peruvian passport confiscated by ICE agents who actually don't have an official capacity or jurisdiction while at the Consulate under Peruvian law.
Peruvian Consul Beoutis, and three ICE agents were identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge along with their official capacity under the names.
On August 23, Mory Lamas was arrested when he failed to buy an airline ticket for voluntary departure. Mory Lamas was taken to the Essex County Correctional Facility, 354 Doremus Avenue in Newark for deportation. His early deportation was video taped by ICE agents from the Essex jail to the New York Kennedy Airport, including his flight all the way to Peru. Mory Lamas was supposed to have departed on September 18, according to the Peruvian Consulate Act agreement.
John Morton, ICE Assistant Secretary and his top administrative officials and the Department of Homeland Security have been contacted via e-mail and have failed to comment or to respond on the Mory Lamas deportation case.
Mory Lamas will continue to challenge his deportation from Peru. He also says, that he was unjustly deported while he had cases pending in court and was suing ICE for not providing him with transcripts of a decision to revoke his deportation during a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) hearing. A page from the BIA hearing turned up missing in which the BIA decided not to remove Mory Lamas from the U.S. Mory Lamas had previously requested transcripts from other hearings and cases with ICE. Even a federal judge ordered ICE to release the documents to Mory Lamas in order for him to legally defend himself, but ICE failed to provide the documents and abide with the judges order, according to Mory Lamas.
While detained in 2008 in an Alabama detention facility, Mory Lamas at first had limited access to legal documents, a library and the internet to help prepare his case to challenge deportation. He was later transferred to New Jersey again and ICE kept his legal documents from him for numerous months in order for Mory Lamas to miss filing dates with the U.S. Supreme Court.
ICE previous actions shows that officials violated federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh's order to provide Mory Lamas with transcripts and they intentionally withheld documents for months. The witholding of transcripts and documents from undocumented immigrants is common with ICE, in order for immigrants to miss filing dates and deadlines on BIA immigration cases, and federal court appeal cases, rendering their cases to be closed and then they would get deported (removed from the U.S.).
Reviewing the Mory Lamas deportation case will indeed reveal that ICE reluctance to timely release transcripts when legally requested by undocumented immigrants is common and in most cases illegal.
The Mory Lamas immigration case is just the tip of the ICE and fractured legal system within ICE. A lack of accountability to remedy and remove ICE officials that violate the legal rights of detainees continues to exist today.
Insight details concerning what led to the removal of Mory Lamas from New Jersey by ICE will definately show a broken immigration system and departments within it don't even respect and abide by legal procedures. Mory Lamas had a petition for amnesty, federal cases pending and a work authorization until 2011, and ICE officials allegedly disregarded them and removed Mory Lamas from the U.S.
Mory Lamas had spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported.
Mory Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.
Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday, September 7, and was released on Thursday, September 9. Family members say, Ruth is suffering from stress and her health could worsen leading to further complications, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family.

Update: For the September 29th Telemundo Spanish interview with Moises Mory Lamas, click at video: http://bit.ly/deU3ZJ

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Copy of official Act in Spanish by the Peru Consulate, and Consul Alejandro Beoutis in Paterson, identifying ICE agents with their signatures, concerning Moisés Roger Mory-Lamas departure from the U.S. (Click on photo to enlarge)

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Telemundo To Air Moises Mory Deportation Plight By US ICE

Mory's deportation plight hits prime time news at Telemundo International news boardcast

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 17, 2010

Lima, Peru - On Friday, Moises Mory Lamas, who was deported on September 9th from Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. to Lima, announced that Telemundo news agency interviewed him on Thursday in Peru concerning his plight with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mory Lamas confirmed, the Telemundo interview will be aired on Wednesday, September 29, at 6:30 p.m. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. time, and focus on his immigration case.
He was unjustly deported while he had cases pending in court and was suing ICE for not providing him with transcripts of a decision to revoke his deportation during a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) hearing. A page from the BIA hearing turned up missing in which the BIA decided not to remove Mory Lamas from the U.S. Mory Lamas had also requested transcripts from other hearings and cases with ICE. Even a federal judge ordered ICE to release the documents to Mory Lamas in order for him to legally defend himself, but ICE failed to provide the documents and abide with the judges order, according to Mory Lamas.
While detained in 2008 in an Alabama detention facility, Mory Lamas at first had limited access to legal documents, a library and the internet to help prepare his case to challenge deportation. He was later transferred to New Jersey again and ICE kept his legal documents from him for numerous months in order for Mory Lamas to miss filing dates with the U.S. Supreme Court.
ICE previous actions shows that officials violated federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh's order to provide Mory Lamas with transcripts and they intentionally withheld documents for months. The witholding of transcripts and documents from undocumented immigrants is common with ICE, in order for immigrants to miss filing dates on BIA immigration cases, and  federal court appeal cases, rendering their cases to be closed and then get deported (removed from the U.S.).
Reviewing the Mory Lamas deportation case will indeed reveal that ICE reluctance to timely release transcripts when legally requested by undocumented immigrants is common and in most cases illegal.
The Mory Lamas immigration case is just the tip of the ICE and fractured legal system within ICE. A lack of accountability to remedy and remove ICE officials that violate the legal rights of detainees continues to exist today.
Insight details concerning what led to the removal of Mory Lamas from New Jersey by ICE will definately show a broken immigration system and departments within it don't even respect and abide by legal procedures. Mory Lamas had a petition for amnesty, federal cases pending and a work authorization until 2011, and ICE officials allegedly disregarded them and removed Mory Lamas from the U.S. 
Mory Lamas had spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported.
Mory Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.
Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday, September 7, and was released on Thursday, September 9. Family members say, Ruth condition could suffer further stress and could turn fatal, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family.

Update: For September 29th Telemundo Spanish interview with Moises Mory Lamas, click at video: http://bit.ly/deU3ZJ

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New Jersey USICE Deports Moises Mory Ending 11 Year Deportation Challenge In U.S.

Moises Roger Mory-Lamas

Last week Wednesday, ICE agents removed from the U.S. an undocumented immigrant while his wife was in the hospital. The day she was released, her husband was already in Peru after being deported despite having federal pending court cases.

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 16, 2010

Newark, New Jersey - On September 9th, Moises Roger Mory-Lamas, 53, in a telephone interview from Lima, Peru says, three male and one female ICE agents picked him up from the county jail in Newark at about 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 8, and deported him from the U.S. They transported him to New York to catch a flight to Peru, while video taping his plight from the Essex County Correctional Facility all the way to the New York Airport.
Mory-Lamas says, he told them during the video taping, that he had several federal cases pending, including in the U.S. Supreme Court and that they were violating his rights by deporting him. The ICE agents just kept video taping for three to four hours.
Mory-Lamas revealed that ICE had locked down the Essex County jail for two weeks, to keep other detainees from complaining about ICE's questionable activities with the Mory-Lamas case. No visitors were allowed or media into the facility, according to Mory-Lamas.
Even two ICE agents accompanied Mory-Lamas all the way to Lima, Peru and had video taped the whole flight ordeal he went through. The flight to Peru left New York Kennedy Airport at midnight and he arrived in Lima at 7:40 a.m. on Thursday.
He said, he will file a complaint against Consul Alejandro Beoutis and the Consulate in Newark and will continue to challenge his deportation by ICE.
ICE has spend more than $400,000 in the Mory-Lamas case alone, including flight passages for two ICE agents to accompanied him to Peru. The U.S. government would have saved thousands of dollars, if they would have allowed him to remain in the country, according to sources.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported Mory-Lamas to Peru, despite a pending immigration appeal case and a petition for amnesty, including residency and work authorization until 2011, according to Mory-Lamas. He fought and challenged his deportation for more than 11 years, until last week when ICE agents finally deported him.
Mory-Lamas arrived in Peru and is currently staying with a sister. His Pro-bono Attorney Glenn Troublefield will continue to challenge Mory-Lamas deportation by ICE in federal court, according to family members. Attorney Troublefield could not be reached for comment.
Mory-Lamas' deportation is a testament of how ICE under ICE Assistant Secreatry John T. Morton, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, President Barack H. Obama, and U.S Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder Jr. have embarked in extreme alleged illegal procedures to deport undocumented immigrants in 2010, according to Mory-Lamas' family and immigration rights activists.
On August 23, Mory-Lamas was arrested when he failed to buy an airline ticket for voluntary departure. Mory-Lamas was taken to the Essex County Correctional Facility, 354 Doremus Avenue in Newark for deportation. His arrest resulted from alleged dubious actions by ICE agents that transpired a week earlier.
On August 12, three ICE agents took Peruvian citizen Mory-Lamas to the Peru Consulate in Paterson from an ICE office he was reporting as required, so Consul Alejandro Beoutis could approve his deportation. Mory-Lamas had alleged, Consul Beoutis told him he had to surrender his Peruvian passport to ICE, or face legal authorization for ICE to deport him anyway from the Peru government, if he wouldn't comply. He said, that afterwards ICE agents took him home and confiscated his Peruvian passport, as approved and mandated by Consul Beoutis.
A Consulate official denied that Beoutis or the Consulate was forcing Mory-Lamas to give up his Peruvian passport, but an official Peruvian Consulate Act (agreement for voluntary departure) signed by Beoutis, and three ICE agents in Spanish says otherwise. The Mory-Lamas family members now say, Beoutis and the Consulate were provided certain services from the U.S. government for Beoutis cooperation, which is deemed inappropriate. Family members are trying to set up a meeting with the Peruvian Embassador to ask for an investigation leading to an agreement by Consul Beoutis to allow ICE agents to confiscate Mory-Lamas' Peruvian passport. ICE agents actually don't have an official capacity or jurisdiction while at the Consulate under Peruvian law.
Morton, ICE Assistant Secretary and his top administrative officials and the Department of Homeland Security have received through e-mail the previous article from Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA), "Immigrant Ordered To Depart Voluntarily By September To Peru, Despite Open Federal Immigration Appeal Cases" concerning allegations of illegal acts by three ICE agents and they haven't responded or have provided any comment to HNNUSA.
Mory-Lamas previously accused, Peruvian Consul Beoutis, and three ICE agents identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge of violating his rights, under immigration law and the U.S. Constitution.
A Peruvian citizen has a right to enter a Peruvian Consulate for official purposes, but with U.S. agents as escorts is considered illegal, and they have no diplomatic status to sign such an Act inside the Consulate, considered foreign soil.
The Mory-Lamas case is proof how disfunctional and probable acts committed by federal agencies under former President George W. Bush and current President Barack H. Obama.
Mory-Lamas has spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory-Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory-Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory-Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory-Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory-Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported.
Mory-Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.
Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday, September 7, and was released on Thursday, September 9. Family members say, Ruth condition could suffer further stress and could turn fatal, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family.

Copy of official Act in Spanish by the Peru Consulate, and Consul Alejandro Beoutis in Paterson, identifying ICE agents with their signatures, concerning Moisés Roger Mory-Lamas departure from the U.S. (Click on photo to enlarge)

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Mory Lamas Deported By U.S.ICE To Peru Depite Federal Pending Cases, Will Continue Challenging Deportation

Moises Roger Mory-Lamas

Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday and was released on Thursday. Family members say, Ruth condition could suffer further stress and could turn fatal, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family. 

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 13, 2010

Newark, New Jersey - On September 9th, Moises Roger Mory-Lamas, 53, in a telephone interview from Lima, Peru says, three male and one female ICE agents picked him up from the county jail in Newark at about 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday. They transported him to New York to catch a flight to Peru. While being transported, the ICE agents filmed Mory-Lamas plight from the Essex County Correctional Facility all the way to the New York Airport.
Mory-Lamas told them during the video taping, that he had several federal cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court pending and that they were violating his rights by deporting him. The ICE agents just kept video taping for three to four hours.
Mory-Lamas revealed that ICE had locked down the Essex County jail for two weeks, to keep other detainees from complaining about ICE's questionable activities with the Mory-Lamas case. No visitors were allowed or media into the facility, according to Mory-Lamas.
Even two ICE agents accompanied Mory-Lamas all the way to Lima, Peru and had video taped the whole flight ordeal he went through. The flight to Peru left New York Kennedy Airport at midnight and he arrived in Lima at 7:40 a.m. on Thursday.
He said, he will file a complaint against Consul Alejandro Beoutis and the Consulate in Newark and will continue to challenge his deportation by ICE.
ICE has spend more than $400,000 in the Mory-Lamas case alone, including flight passages for two ICE agents to accompanied him to Peru. The U.S. government would have saved thousands of dollars, if they would have allowed him to remain in the country, according to sources.
On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deported Mory-Lamas to Peru, despite a pending immigration appeal case and a petition for amnesty, including residency and work authorization until 2011. Mory Lamas fought and challenged his deportation for more than 11 years, until yesterday when ICE agents finally deported him.
Mory-Lamas arrived last night in Peru and is currently staying with a sister. His Pro-bono Attorney Glenn Troublefield will continue to challenge Mory-Lamas deportation by ICE in federal court, according to family members.
His deportation is a testament of how ICE under ICE Assistant Secreatry John T. Morton, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, President Barack H. Obama, and U.S Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder Jr. has embarked in extreme alleged illegal procedures to deport undocumented immigrants in 2010, according to Mory-Lamas' family and immigration rights activists.
On August 23, Mory-Lamas was arrested when he failed to buy an airline ticket for voluntary departure. Mory-Lamas was taken to the Essex County Correctional Facility, 354 Doremus Avenue in Newark for deportation. His arrest resulted from alleged dubious actions by ICE agents that transpired a week earlier.
On August 12, three ICE agents took Peruvian citizen Mory-Lamas to the Peru Consulate in Paterson from an ICE office he was reporting as required, so Consul Alejandro Beoutis could approve his deportation. Mory-Lamas had alleged, Consul Beoutis told him he had to surrender his Peruvian passport to ICE, or face legal authorization for ICE to deport him anyway from the Peru government, if he wouldn't comply. He said, that afterwards ICE agents took him home and confiscated his Peruvian passport, as approved and mandated by Consul Beoutis.
A Consulate official denied that Beoutis or the Consulate was forcing Mory-Lamas to give up his Peruvian passport, but an official Peruvian Consulate Act (agreement for voluntary departure) signed by Beoutis, and three ICE agents in Spanish says otherwise. The Mory-Lamas family members now say, Beoutis and the Consulate were provided certain services from the U.S. government for Beoutis cooperation, which is deemed inappropriate. Family members are trying to set up a meeting with the Peruvian Embassador to ask for an investigation leading to an agreement by Consul Beoutis for ICE agents to confiscate Mory-Lamas' Peruvian passport. ICE agents actually don't have an official capacity or jurisdiction while at the Consulate under Peruvian law.
Morton, ICE Assistant Secretary and his top administrative officials and the Department of Homeland Security have received through e-mail the previous article from Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA), "Immigrant Ordered To Depart Voluntarily By September To Peru, Despite Open Federal Immigration Appeal Cases" concerning allegations of illegal acts by three ICE agents and they haven't responded or have provided any comment to HNNUSA.
Mory-Lamas previously accused, Peruvian Consul Beoutis, and three ICE agents identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge of violating his rights, under immigration law and the U.S. Constitution.
A Peruvian citizen has a right to enter a Peruvian Consulate for official purposes, but with U.S. agents as escorts is considered illegal, and they have no diplomatic status to sign such an Act inside the Consulate, considered foreign soil.
The Mory-Lamas case is proof how disfunctional and probable acts committed by federal agencies under former President George W. Bush and current President Barack H. Obama.
Mory-Lamas has spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory-Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory-Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory-Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory-Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory-Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported yesterday.
Mory-Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.

Copy of official Act in Spanish by the Peru Consulate, and Consul Alejandro Beoutis in Paterson, identifying ICE agents with their signatures, concerning Moisés Roger Mory-Lamas departure from the U.S. (Click on photo to enlarge)

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Editorial: U.S. ICE Deports Moises Mory Lamas Despite Pending Cases

Moises Roger Mory Lamas

Editorial: In this case, the Mory Lamas deportation does warrant a federal inquiry into actions taken by ICE agents.

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 11, 2010

Newark, New Jersey - Last Wednesday at midnight, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents escorted Moises Roger Mory Lamas, 53, from The Essex County Correctional Facility to the New York Kennedy Airport and deported him to Peru. Mory Lamas had been challenging his deportation since 1999.
His deportation by ERO agents and the video taping of his plight for more than four hours in the U.S. and including the continued video taping of his deportation flight from N.Y. to Lima, Peru draws numerous questions. Why was it taped? It seems, these ERO agents knew or discovered that Mory Lamas had several federal pending cases and had an authorized work permit until 2011. By law, every person whether a U.S. Citizen, legal or undocumented are afforded a Constitutional right to due process and have his/her day in court, including immigration court proceedings.
In this case, Mory Lamas was deported by ERO agents despite his pending cases. Even when Mory Lamas who was interviewed on Thursday from Lima, Peru said, he told the ERO agents of the pending cases and that they were violating his constitutional rights.
The ERO agents ignored his pleas and they deported him. The federal agents actions and authorization from ICE administrative supervisors and the approval of John T. Morton, Assistant ICE Secretary to execute Mory Lamas' deportation warrants a federal investigation by members of Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division and the Obama administration. So far, the ERO or ICE have yet to comment about articles alleging illegal conduct, procedures and activities by ICE and ERO agents in Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA). Morton and his top administrative officials in various departments from ICE have been contacted through email and articles have been provided for their response and none has been afforded by ICE.
Not even a press release from ICE concerning the Mory Lamas deportation and the video taping of his plight during deportation has been released. Why? Simply put, they probably committed legal errors and indeed as Mory Lamas alleged, they violated his constitutional rights. 
ICE-ERO agents and Morton should be held accountable and should be federally charged with civil rights and constitutional violations, if in fact they did violate Mory Lamas constitutional rights.
On Thursday, Mory Lamas confirmed he will continue to challenge his deportation and he should.
In brief; on August 23, Mory Lamas was arrested when he failed to buy an airline ticket for voluntary departure on September 18. Mory Lamas was taken to the Essex County Correctional Facility, 354 Doremus Avenue in Newark for deportation. His arrest resulted from alleged dubious actions by ICE agents that transpired a week earlier.
On August 12, three ICE agents took Peruvian citizen Mory Lamas to the Peru Consulate in Paterson from an ICE office he was reporting as required, so Consul Alejandro Beoutis could approve his deportation. Mory Lamas had alleged, Consul Beoutis told him he had to surrender his Peruvian passport to ICE, or face legal authorization for ICE to deport him anyway from the Peru government, if he wouldn't comply. He said, that afterwards ICE agents took him home and confiscated his Peruvian passport, as approved and mandated by Consul Beoutis.
A Consulate official denied that Beoutis or the Consulate was forcing Mory Lamas to give up his Peruvian passport, but an official Peruvian Consulate Act (agreement for voluntary departure) signed by Beoutis and three ICE agents in Spanish says otherwise. The Mory Lamas family members now say, Beoutis and the Consulate were provided certain services from the U.S government for Beoutis cooperation, which is deemed inappropriate.
Mory Lamas previously accused, Peruvian Consul Beoutis, and three ICE agents identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge of violating his rights, under immigration law and the U.S. Constitution.
The ERO agents deported Mory Lamas before the actual date of voluntary departure, which he says was given no alternative and Consul Beoutis did not allow him to consult his attorney Glenn Troublefield.
The Mory Lamas case is proof how disfunctional and probable acts committed by federal agencies under former President George W. Bush and current President Barack H. Obama.
Mory Lamas has spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported on Wednesday.
Mory Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.
Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday and was released on Thursday. Family members say, Ruth condition could suffer further stress and could turn fatal, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family. 

Copy of official Act in Spanish by the Peru Consulate, and Consul Alejandro Beoutis in Paterson, identifying ICE agents with their signatures, concerning Moisés Roger Mory Lamas departure from the U.S. (Click on photo to enlarge)

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Peruvian Mory-Lamas Deported By ICE Despite Pending Cases In U.S.

Moises Roger Mory-Lamas

Ruth Mory, Moises' wife is a cancer survivor, suffers from diabetes and other ailments was taken to the hospital for emotional stress and high blood pressure on Tuesday and was released on Thursday. Family members say, Ruth condition could suffer further stress and could turn fatal, especially now that ICE deported her husband who was the principle income earner for the family. 

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 9, 2010

Newark, New Jersey - On Thursday afternoon, Moises Roger Mory-Lamas, 53, in a telephone interview from Lima, Peru says, three male and one female ICE agents picked him up from the county jail in Newark at about 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday. They transported him to New York to catch a flight to Peru. While being transported, the ICE agents filmed Mory-Lamas plight from the Essex County Correctional Facility all the way to the New York Airport.
Mory-Lamas told them during the video taping, that he had several federal cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court pending and that they were violating his rights by deporting him. The ICE agents just kept video taping for three to four hours.
Mory-Lamas revealed that ICE had locked down the Essex County jail for two weeks, to keep other detainees from complaining about ICE's questionable activities with the Mory-Lamas case. No visitors were allowed or media into the facility, according to Mory-Lamas.
Even two ICE agents accompanied Mory-Lamas all the way to Lima, Peru and had video taped the whole flight ordeal he went through. The flight to Peru left New York Kennedy Airport at midnight and he arrived in Lima at 7:40 a.m. on Thursday.
He said, he will file a complaint against Consul Alejandro Beoutis and the Consulate in Newark and will continue to challenge his deportation by ICE.
ICE has spend more than $400,000 in the Mory-Lamas case alone, including flight passages for two ICE agents to accompanied him to Peru. The U.S. government would have saved thousands of dollars, if they would have allowed him to remain in the country, according to sources.
On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deported Mory-Lamas to Peru, despite a pending immigration appeal case and a petition for amnesty, including residency and work authorization until 2011. Mory Lamas fought and challenged his deportation for more than 11 years, until yesterday when ICE agents finally deported him.
Mory-Lamas arrived last night in Peru and is currently staying with a sister. His Pro-bono Attorney Glenn Troublefield will continue to challenge Mory-Lamas deportation by ICE in federal court, according to family members.
His deportation is a testament of how ICE under ICE Assistant Secreatry John T. Morton, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, President Barack H. Obama, and U.S Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder Jr. has embarked in extreme alleged illegal procedures to deport undocumented immigrants in 2010, according to Mory-Lamas' family and immigration rights activists.
On August 23, Mory-Lamas was arrested when he failed to buy an airline ticket for voluntary departure. Mory-Lamas was taken to the Essex County Correctional Facility, 354 Doremus Avenue in Newark for deportation. His arrest resulted from alleged dubious actions by ICE agents that transpired a week earlier.
On August 12, three ICE agents took Peruvian citizen Mory-Lamas to the Peru Consulate in Paterson from an ICE office he was reporting as required, so Consul Alejandro Beoutis could approve his deportation. Mory-Lamas had alleged, Consul Beoutis told him he had to surrender his Peruvian passport to ICE, or face legal authorization for ICE to deport him anyway from the Peru government, if he wouldn't comply. He said, that afterwards ICE agents took him home and confiscated his Peruvian passport, as approved and mandated by Consul Beoutis.
A Consulate official denied that Beoutis or the Consulate was forcing Mory-Lamas to give up his Peruvian passport, but an official Peruvian Consulate Act (agreement for voluntary departure) signed by Beoutis, and three ICE agents in Spanish says otherwise. The Mory-Lamas family members now say, Beoutis and the Consulate were provided certain services from the U.S. government for Beoutis cooperation, which is deemed inappropriate. Family members are trying to set up a meeting with the Peruvian Embassador to ask for an investigation leading to an agreement by Consul Beoutis for ICE agents to confiscate Mory-Lamas' passport. ICE agents actually don't have an official capacity or jurisdiction while at the Consulate under Peruvian law.
Morton, ICE Assistant Secretary and his top administrative officials and the Department of Homeland Security have received through e-mail the previous article from Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA), "Immigrant Ordered To Depart Voluntarily By September To Peru, Despite Open Federal Immigration Appeal Cases" concerning allegations of illegal acts by three ICE agents and they haven't responded or have provided any comment to HNNUSA.
Mory-Lamas previously accused, Peruvian Consul Beoutis, and three ICE agents identified in the Act signatures as Juan Mezarina, Oscar Torres and James Laforge of violating his rights, under immigration law and the U.S. Constitution.
A Peruvian citizen has a right to enter a Peruvian Consulate for official purposes, but with U.S. agents as escorts is considered illegal, and they have no diplomatic status to sign such an Act inside the Consulate, considered foreign soil.
The Mory-Lamas case is proof how disfunctional and probable acts committed by federal agencies under former President George W. Bush and current President Barack H. Obama.
Mory-Lamas has spend at least five years in immigration detention, until he was released in early 2009. Mory-Lamas was convicted of possession of drugs, a minor state offense. He pleaded no-contest in 1986, and his lawyer did not advice Mory-Lamas of the consequences and possible deportation. He served 6 months in jail and was fined $30.00 for the conviction.
He began his appeal in 1999, served one year in '99 and then served four years from 2004 and was finally released in January 2009. Since then, Mory-Lamas was put on an electronic device, had to report to an ICE officer at least twice a week, until he finally was granted a work permit until 2011.
Ruth Mory a U.S. Citizen, his wife had petition for Mory-Lamas residency in 2004, under the 1986 amnesty Northwest Immigration Projects.
Mory-Lamas had a pending habeas corpus appeal with federal Judge Dennis Cavanaugh in the district of Newark, before being deported yesterday.
Mory-Lamas has a 17-year-old daughter who is a U.S Citizen.

Copy of official Act in Spanish by the Peru Consulate, and Consul Alejandro Beoutis in Paterson, identifying ICE agents with their signatures, concerning Moisés Roger Mory-Lamas departure from the U.S. (Click on photo to enlarge)

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