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Last night multiple people detained at the Bluebonnet ICE detention center in Texas were handed sheets of paper IN ENGLISH and told by ICE officers that they were required to sign the paper (even if they only spoke Spanish).

These were reportedly "Alien Enemies Act" notices.
On April 17 at 10:36 I spoke to the sister of Luis Yoender Mercado. She informed me that she spoke to him this afternoon. Luis is detained at Bluebonnet. He has a master Calendar hearing scheduled on April 23, 2025. He told his sister that several people had received notices and were told by officers that they were being sent to El Salvador. 6. I also received messages on a listserv from several contacts indicating that people at Bluebonnet were receiving notices that they would be removed. The message says, “We just heard that it looks like more removals are being planned. We got this message from a member: “Hi, ICE moved a large group of Venezuelans to Bluebonnet earlier this week and some of them have alerted counsel that they received a notice minutes ago saying they would be removed under the AEA. The notice was in English and had a box for people to indicate they want to contest the designation. People should check on their Venezuelan clients if they've been moved to Bluebonnet and tell them to mark "I contest" in the notice.” 9. Sometime between April 14-16, Y.S.M. was transferred to Bluebonnet Detention Facility, as was his father. On the night of April 16, I was made aware of his location and emailed a request for a video call. I received a follow-up to my request on April 17 in the afternoon. 10. During the night of April 17, I received notice through Y.S.M.’s father that Y.S.M. had been taken away by agents. Y.S.M. was taken to another room. The agents returned for Y.S.M.’s belongings. As he passed by, Y.S.M.’s father could see through a window that Y.S.M. was crying. As Y.S.M. and the agents were passing, Y.S.M. held up a paper to the window. Another detainee who spoke English was able to read that the paper said “deportation.” The country of removal was not visible. Because he has no final immigration order, the government could only be seeking to remove him under the AEA, not the immigration laws. I am an attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services in Brooklyn, New York. 2. On April 17, 2025, I spoke with my client, a Venezuelan national detained at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, and with his partner several times on the phone. 3. My client and his partner told me that Venezuelan men detained at Bluebonnet were being given a piece of paper saying that they were about to be deported regardless of their immigration status because they are a danger to the United States and that these men were asked to sign the paper notice or a document provided with it. They also told me that ICE officials refused to say where the men would be deported. 4. My client and his partner also told me that individual men were being removed from the facility without warning upon receiving the paper notice.
April 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM