Pinay green card holder detained by ICE after returning from PH: report
Pinay green card holder detained by ICE after returning from PH: report
Lewelyn Dixon, a long-term green card holder who immigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. fifty years ago, is facing detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Washington, as per the information given by her niece Emily Cristobal as per agency reports. Dixon graduated from Farrington High School and has been working as a lab technician at the University of Washington. According to Hawaii News Now, she last renewed her green card in 2022.
“We haven’t officially been told why she’s being held. They just keep saying that they’re waiting for documents,” said Cristobal, who works as office manager for Hawaii State Representative Tina Grandinetti.
Grandinetti is pushing a bill to provide legal representation for immigrants in Hawaii.
“The targeting of our immigrant community is not just something happening on our phones and TV screens,” Grandinetti said. “This is a reality that’s impacting our staff, our friends, our families and our loved ones.”
Dixon's reported detention comes amid an immigration crack down under the administration of US President Donald Trump.
But Gradinetti is using her platform to fight it.
“Folks in the United States are guaranteed the right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, but that applies only to criminal proceedings,” Grandinetti said. “immigration proceedings are civil proceedings.”
Immigration attorneys said green card holders can be deported, for cause.
