Undocumented migrant framed for threatening Trump is eligible for launch | EUROtoday

A Mexican man going through deportation after being framed for sending a threatening letter to Donald Trump could possibly be launched within the coming days.

A Chicago immigration choose dominated on Tuesday that Ramón Morales-Reyes, 54, was not a menace to the general public and set his bond at $7,500.

“Today’s decision gives us hope that he can be by our side again,” Morales-Reyes’s daughter Ana mentioned in an announcement through the group Voces de la Frontera. “We are so grateful to the judge and to the community for supporting us.”

The Department of Homeland Security insists the 54-year-old remains to be a menace.

“While this criminal illegal alien is no longer under investigation for threats against the President, he is in the country illegally with previous arrests for felony hit and run, criminal damage to property, and disorderly conduct with domestic abuse,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin mentioned in an announcement.

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The Independent has contacted Morales-Reyes’s lawyer for additional remark.

Reyes was arrested in May in Wisconsin after initially being considered the creator of letters containing threats to Donald Trump and immigration brokers.

“We are tired of this president messing with us Mexicans – we have done more for this county than you whites – you have been deporting my family and now I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him,” the phony letter learn.

Homeland Security officers initially celebrated the arrest of Morales-Reyes, who they mentioned was an “illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump,” whereas attorneys and members of the family of the person mentioned the letter couldn’t be legitimate since Morales-Reyes can’t communicate or write in English.

Last week, Wisconsin man Demetric D. Scott admitted to writing the letters below the Mexican man’s identify, within the hopes of getting him deported to forestall his testimony in a theft case, based on officers.

In an interview with police in May, Scott “admitted that he wrote everything on the letters” and “believed the letters were the simplest way to get Morales-Reyes “off his back,” based on courtroom paperwork obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Scott was allegedly recorded on a name from a Milwaukee County jail detailing the scheme to border the immigrant to forestall him from testifying a couple of 2023 theft wherein authorities say Morales-Reyes was the sufferer.

“[I]f he gets picked up by ICE, there won’t be a jury trial so they will probably dismiss it that day,” Scott mentioned, per courtroom information.

Scott, 52, was charged earlier this month with identification theft, intimidating a witness and two counts of bail leaping over the alleged scheme.

The prices add to earlier allegations of armed theft, aggravated battery, second-degree recklessly endangering security and bail leaping over a 2023 incident wherein he allegedly attacked Morales-Reyes with a corkscrew whereas he was using a bicycle, leaving him with a lung abrasion.

Scott insisted the bicycle had been stolen from him and Morales-Reyes had beforehand threatened him.

DHS mentioned in an announcement that Morales-Reyes entered the U.S. unlawfully no less than 9 occasions between 1998 and 2005.

The 54-year-old immigrant’s household says he’s within the strategy of looking for a U visa for survivors and witnesses of violent crime.

If Morales-Reyes is unable to submit bond, removing proceedings start on July 10.

Homeland Security can enchantment the bond resolution.