Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, a twenty-three-old Mexican man living in California, is one of the first “DREAMers” to be deported by President Trump, immigration advocates and lawyers are claiming; a removal that would contradict the stated policy by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that does not prioritize DACA recipients for removal. The US government and lawyers for Montes have differing versions of the story surrounding Montes’s removal from the US. The US government is claiming that Montes voluntarily left the US and illegally tried to reenter, thus violating the conditions of his DACA status, and lawyers for Montes allege that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents removed him from the US despite his valid DACA status.
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