{"id":31208,"date":"2026-06-10T23:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31208"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:31:30","slug":"ice-rushes-to-deport-palestinian-grandpa-despite-judges-order-to-free-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31208","title":{"rendered":"ICE Rushes to Deport Palestinian Grandpa Despite Judge\u2019s Order to Free Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-underline\">Less than two<\/span> weeks ago, in a scathing rebuke, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28221812-emergency-order-for-ice-to-re-release-omar-on-june-8-2026\/\">ordered<\/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release a Louisiana grandfather who\u2019d suffered a heart attack while in ICE custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man, Akram Mahmoud Omar, 77, lived in the U.S. for 50 years until ICE abruptly seized him during a routine check-in last October and soon sent him to \u201cCamp 57,\u201d the ICE detention camp within the notorious Angola, Louisiana, state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stress of the poor conditions there contributed to Omar\u2019s heart attack, according to the habeas petition he filed in April. On May 29, a federal judge found ICE had violated Omar\u2019s constitutional rights and ordered his immediate release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then on Monday, just 10 days after his release, ICE seized Omar again and tried to whisk the still-recovering man onto a deportation flight the next morning, according to his lawyer Ken Mayeaux.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following an emergency motion from Mayeaux, the same judge again ordered ICE to release Omar and cautioned the agency not to make another deportation attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (\u2018ICE\u2019) shall IMMEDIATELY RELEASE Omar from ICE custody,\u201d said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28221812-emergency-order-for-ice-to-re-release-omar-on-june-8-2026\/\">Monday order<\/a> from Judge Brian Jackson in Louisiana\u2019s Middle District. \u201cICE shall not RE-DETAIN or REMOVE Omar from the United States during the pendency of Omar\u2019s Emergency Motion to Enforce the Court\u2019s May 29 Order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(document)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22DOCUMENT%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22EMBED%22%7D)(%7B%22sourceId%22%3A%2228221812-emergency-order-for-ice-to-re-release-omar-on-june-8-2026%22%2C%22sourceName%22%3A%22documentcloud%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fbeta.documentcloud.org%5C%2Fdocuments%5C%2F28221812-emergency-order-for-ice-to-re-release-omar-on-june-8-2026%22%7D) --><br \/>\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"450\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28221812-emergency-order-for-ice-to-re-release-omar-on-june-8-2026\/?embed=1&amp;title=1\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n  <!-- END-BLOCK(document)[0] --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the May order, the judge found that ICE had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28227644-may-29-order-for-omars-release-from-ice-custody\/\">violated Omar\u2019s constitutional rights<\/a> by unlawfully detaining him and denying him the chance to prepare for an orderly departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE directly defied that order by seizing him without warning for immediate deportation, the emergency motion alleges, blocking him from arranging his affairs or even saying goodbye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPetitioner\u2019s re-detention and planned removal are in direct contempt of this Court\u2019s prior order,\u201d reads the June 8 emergency motion. The government \u201clied to Mr. Omar, telling him and his family that he did not need to report to ICE\/ERO\u201d \u2014 ICE\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations division \u2014 \u201cuntil December, but now, Respondent is racing to remove petitioner within hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(cta)[0] --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement to The Lens and The Intercept, ICE spokesperson Angelina Vicknair said, \u201cICE complies with all court orders, and any allegation that a judge\u2019s orders were not followed are categorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal courts are now constantly dealing with flagrant violations of judicial orders by ICE, said Bridget Pranzatelli, an attorney with the National Immigration Project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis level of cruelty and disrespect for federal courts is the rule, not the exception,\u201d said Pranzatelli, who is familiar with the case. \u201cThe Court looked at the entire record before it and issued a well-reasoned decision, which specifically mandated certain protections for this very elderly, very sick man, and ICE ignored it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE\u2019s actions in Omar\u2019s case are also in line with the way that the government is using <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/04\/15\/rubio-antisemitism-mahdawi-columbia-student-ice-palestine-israel\/\">extreme measures<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/10\/02\/gaza-remittance-wire-transfer-hamas-ice\/\">target Palestinians<\/a>, Pranzatelli said. Omar was born in Palestine before the formation of the state of Israel; in 1975, he moved to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-if-in-fact-he-survives-the-flight\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cIf In Fact He Survives the Flight\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his release last month, Omar attended his regular ICE check-in on the first\u00a0Wednesday in June; his next check-in would be in December, he was told. But last Friday, he received a letter telling him to report to an ICE office on Monday morning, June 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Omar received the letter, Mayeaux emailed the ICE office in Bossier City, Louisiana, where Omar lives, warning immigration officials that \u201cany attempted removal of Mr. Omar in June would be in direct contempt of the Court Order,\u201d according to a copy of the email included with the motion. \u201cI am instructing my client not to report as requested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, on Monday, ICE came to Omar\u2019s home and arrested him again. Omar\u2019s wife immediately called Mayeaux. Only hours later did ICE tell Omar\u2019s family he was being taken nearly two hours away, to an ICE staging area for deportation flights, and would be put on a plane the next morning to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By early afternoon, Mayeux had filed the emergency motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His client\u2019s health, Mayeux wrote in the emergency motion, was his main concern. Omar is still recovering from his April heart attack and open-heart surgery. His wife told the arresting ICE officer that she was planning to take Omar to a cardiologist later that day, and that he could not move well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the filing, a doctor was prepared to testify that the roughly 14-hour flight without medical clearance raised serious concerns about Omar\u2019s health, \u201cif in fact he survives the flight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-heartless-and-cruel\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cHeartless and Cruel\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omar had been in the U.S. for half a century when ICE picked him up in Mississippi during a routine check-in last fall. There was no readily apparent cause: ICE had long known about two minor, nonviolent convictions, one in 2005 and one in 2022, but Omar had lived in the U.S. for years under ICE supervision and had complied with required immigration check-ins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIncredibly, despite these undisputed facts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (\u2018ICE\u2019) considers Omar to be both a \u2018flight risk\u2019 and a \u2018priority for removal,\u201d said the May release order from Jackson, a federal judge in Baton Rouge. \u201cOmar has been held in ICE detention since October 28, 2025 \u2014 7 full months \u2014 with no end in sight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jackson ruled that ICE had to abide by its own regulations: If ICE were to deport him, the agency needed to give him advance notice, a reason, an opportunity for an orderly departure, and an informal interview to respond to ICE\u2019s deportation efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE did not serve Omar\u2019s counsel with notice until he was already back in ICE custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Notice also makes a mockery of the Court\u2019s Order,\u201d says Mayeaux\u2019s June 8 emergency motion. \u201cIt was only after he was taken back into custody \u2014 in contravention of the Court\u2019s Order \u2014 that he was informed of the existence of the travel document and of his imminent removal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even at that point, the motion alleged, ICE didn\u2019t give Omar the chance to speak directly with counsel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court had also directed ICE to facilitate communication with Omar\u2019s doctors and family \u201cto ensure the most efficient and effective continuation of his required medical treatment upon his release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICE appears to have violated most of Jackson\u2019s orders when its agents re-detained Omar. Even when ICE SUVs showed up at his door to bring him to the Bossier City field office, the agents continued to say that it was only a routine check-in. Not until less than 24 hours before the flight was scheduled to depart were family members told he was being deported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, an order from Jackson mandated Omar\u2019s immediate release. ICE agents returned him to his home around 7 p.m. Monday evening \u2014\u00a0leaving his family relieved, but shaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re all completely traumatized,\u201d Mayeaux said of his client\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While ICE\u2019s letter last week had made him suspicious, he said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe they would be so heartless and cruel as to do this to a 77-year-old man who\u2019s ill. I just didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#ICE #Rushes #Deport #Palestinian #Grandpa #Judges #Order #Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks ago, in a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}