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Saturday 4 May 2019
Judge: ICE agents can't use immigration interview as 'trap'

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN said.
Associated Press The judge wrote, "Mr. Lin
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — would be asked to fend for
U.S. Immigration and Cus- himself in a country he has
toms Enforcement agents not lived in since 2002. He
impermissibly arrested a has no family in Shanghai,
Maryland resident after he and it is unclear how he will
showed up for an interview care for himself."
with immigration officials, a The preliminary injunction
federal judge said in a rul- granted by Hazel gives Lin
ing that could benefit oth- more time to stay in the
ers fighting deportation or- country while he seeks per-
ders. manent residence, but it's
U.S. District Judge George not the final word in the
Hazel's decision Thursday case.
extends a previous order During a hearing in March,
that blocked authorities Justice Department at-
from deporting Wanrong torney Julian Kurz said ICE
Lin to his native China. Lin's agents have the discretion
wife and three children are to make arrests and en-
U.S. citizens. force deportation orders "in
ICE agents put Lin on a a resource-efficient way."
commercial flight from He said Lin's attorneys were
New Jersey to Shanghai asking the court to block
last November, but Hazel In this Friday, March 15, 2019 file photo, Hui Fang Dong leave the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, an "indisputably valid re-
Md., after a hearing on whether Dong's husband, Wanrong Lin, can remain in the U.S. while he
ordered Lin to be returned seeks to legalize his immigration status. moval order."
to the U.S. before the flight Associated Press "Removing Lin would not
arrived in China. The Ameri- be inconsistent with any
can Civil Liberties Union of completing the provisional sional waiver process in this to go back to China," Dong statute, regulation or the
Maryland sued on Lin's be- waiver process. fashion, the ACLU attorney said. Constitution," Kurz said.
half only minutes before "Defendants have thus added. Dong became a natural- In 2016, Lin and Dong be-
the plane took off. taken a rule that was pro- Justice Department attor- ized U.S. citizen in 2004, the gan applying for the state-
ICE agents had detained mulgated for one purpose neys assigned to the case same year they married. Lin side waiver. As part of the
Lin last August after his inter- and used it for the opposite didn't immediately respond did not, but sought asylum process, they went for an
view for his application for purpose," Hazel wrote. to an email seeking com- in 2008, a request that was interview at a federal im-
a "stateside waiver," which ACLU of Maryland attor- ment. denied and resulted in an migration office in Balti-
allows noncitizens facing ney Nick Steiner said he has In statements released by order for his deportation. more in August to confirm
deportation to remain in shared the decision with the ACLU of Maryland, He did not actually leave the "bona fides" of their
the U.S. while seeking legal other immigrant advocates Lin and his wife, Hui Fang the country, however, un- marriage, the ACLU law-
status. in case they have clients in Dong, said they are happy til he was deported in No- yers said. The interviewer
Hazel said the government a similar predicament. and relieved that he can vember. told Dong that the valid-
can't use that process "as a "Nothing in the decision di- stay with his family at their Lin, 38, was 14 years old ity of their marriage would
trap for unsuspecting ap- rectly applies beyond Mr. home in California, Mary- when he came to the U.S. be confirmed but escorted
plicants." The judge said Lin," Steiner said. land, where they own and alone in 1994. Remov- Lin to a separate room for
agents effectively used the But the ruling sends a "pret- operate a restaurant. ing him now will keep him more questioning. That's
interview to lure Lin to his ty strong signal to ICE" that "I don't know what we separated from his family when ICE agents arrested
arrest, preventing him from it can't abuse the provi- would have done if he had for years, his lawyers have him.q

'Fatal Attraction' killer Carolyn

Warmus granted parole

in the Journal News . jurors deadlocked 8-4 in fa- eligible in 2017.
Warmus, now 55, was sen- vor of conviction. She was Mayer Morganroth, an at-
tenced to 25 years to life in found guilty of second-de- torney for Warmus, said in
prison in 1992 for the mur- gree murder a year later. an email, "We are indeed
der of Betty Jeanne Solo- A key witness in the trial pleased that release has
mon. was New York City private been granted." He said
Prosecutors said Warmus investigator Vincent Parco, Warmus' legal team would
This file photo from Jan. 22, 1991, shows ex-school teacher Car- was having an affair with who testified that he had be busy putting "the partic-
olyn Warmus during trial in Westchester County Court. the victim's husband, fel- sold Warmus a .25-caliber ulars of her future" in place.
low teacher Paul Solomon, handgun with a silencer Paul Solomon declined to
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Carolyn Warmus will be re- when she fired nine gun- days before the killing. comment to the Journal
A former New York school- leased from Bedford Hills shots at Betty Jeanne Solo- Warmus, the daughter of News about Warmus' pa-
teacher who was convict- prison as early as June 10 mon in the victim's home in a wealthy Michigan insur- role. The case was dubbed
ed of killing her lover's wife in after a three-member pan- Greenburgh, New York on ance executive, has al- the Fatal Attraction killing
a sensational case dubbed el of the state Parole Board Jan. 15, 1989. ways maintained her inno- after the 1987 movie star-
the Fatal Attraction murder granted her release. The Warmus' first trial ended in cence. She was denied pa- ring Glenn Close and Mi-
has been granted parole. decision was first reported a hung jury in 1991 with the role when she first became chael Douglas.q