Woman Faces Deportation After Another Woman Rear-Ends Her Car

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Beast


Myriam Parada, a woman living without documentation in the U.S., showed Minnesota police her Mexican ID when she got in a car accident. They handed her to ICE, and now she’s suing.

ELISHA BROWN
03.26.18 5:19 PM ET


A Minnesota woman was leaving her sister’s birthday party last summer when her car full of young kids was rear-ended. She was arrested, not the driver, and now she’s facing deportation.

Myriam Parada sued Anoka County Police in a federal on Thursday for calling federal immigration officials and racially profiling her after she was involved in a car accident in July 2017. Parada was booked for not showing the proper ID and issued an administrative warrant by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when she was released the next day. The lawsuit follows a similar lawsuit filed by a Washington man who was turned into ICE after calling the cops for help.

Last July, Parada was leaving her sister’s birthday party in a car with young passengers when a driver rear-ended her vehicle, the complaint stated. A Coon Rapids police officer arrived on the scene and asked for identification from both Parada and the other driver, an unidentified 24-year-old white woman.

Parada showed Coon Rapids Officer Nicolas Oman her Mexican Consular card, because she did not have a driver’s license. Oman arrested the immigrant because he was “unable to positively identify her,” according to a police report cited in the court filings. The other driver, who had a history of violations, including drunk driving, was let go.



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/woman-faces-deportation-after-another-woman-rear-ends-her-car?ref=wrap

[Rollo]

1. Would they deport Melania's parents if they got in a car accident that wasn't their fault?

Just wondering...

[Angry Dragon]

2. Arrest the other woman also

[Corgigal]

3. The drunk driver was let go.

America is so much safer tonight. Good job, Feds.

[Igel]

4. It doesn't say the other driver was drunk.

You're set up to infer that.

It said, "The other driver, who had a history of violations, including drunk driving, was let go."

Similarly, it doesn't give enough details to know who was at fault. We're left to make whatever assumption we see fit. Odds are it was the other woman, but there are times when the person who gets hit is at fault.

[Corgigal]

5. Sorry, and true.

Read it too quickly, thank you.

[dsc]

6. If you rear end someone you are virtually always at fault

[Jedi Guy]

7. True, but that doesn't mean an automatic arrest.

I rear-ended someone when I was a dumb 15-year-old. The responding officer issued me a citation and that was that. The damage to the other guy's car was settled through insurance. It was never a criminal matter.