A deaf Mongolian man who uses sign language to communicate has been released from police custody in southern California after spending months in detention without access to an interpreter, confirmed a family member on Saturday.
Calmatters reported earlier this month On man’s detention. His family asked that he was only identified by the name swallowed because of their fear of being able to be injured by the Mongolian government if he was finally returned to his country of origin.
The South American District Judge of California Dana Sabraw, July 9, ordered officials of the Otay Mesa detention center to provide avirmed from a Mongolian sign language interpreter. Until now, immigration and customs’ application had not given him access to anyone who spoke his language, which his lawyer has assimilated him to maintain him in isolation.
Immigration agents tried to use Google Translate to ask Avirmed if he feared returning to Mongolia, according to the judicial archives. They misunderstood him, identifying her sponsor as a girl named Virginia Washington, but he has no girl, according to a legal complaint filed in his name. His sponsor is his sister, who lives in Virginia.
She confirmed: “He’s at home with me.”
Avirmed lawyers with the Legal Center for the Disabled Persons And United law of people argued that the holding of the Immigration Tribunal procedures without allowing him to access an interpreter violated the legal civil rights of Avirmed. They relied on federal laws on disabled people prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities by any federal program, including the system of immigration courts.
Sabraw accepted. “Does he have a right, isn’t it? To be able to fully participate in an important procedure?” The federal judge asked the lawyer for the federal government.
The American lawyer’s office for the southern district of California would not comment on the release of man.
Sabraw also ordered the federal government to redo two assessments that could have affected the asylum request for the 48 -year -old man. The government has made the evaluations in an advanced language did not understand, judged the judge. One examined his mental health, and the other assessed if he has a credible fear for his safety if he returns to his country.
Avirmed has been detained in the Otay Mesa detention center since he entered the United States in February asking for the asylum for persecution because of his handicap. An assault from 2020 in Mongolia left him a traumatic cerebral lesion which causes convulsions and a loss of memory. He was attacked because of his handicap, according to the judicial archives. His family refused to say how he reached the United States
We still don’t know why Avimed has been released after being detained since February. He had no additional obligations hearing, according to a file from the Immigration Court. His lawyers could not be reached immediately to comment. Ice did not return a comment request.
Wendy Fry writes for calmatters, where this article originally appeared.
