 Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who has no criminal record, was arrested along with his father despite having received protection under Obama’s Daca program 
 
 US authorities have arrested an immigrant from Mexico who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and later given a work permit during the Obama administration in what could be the first detention of its kind under Donald Trump. The petition challenges the immigration detention and seeks the release of Daniel Ramirez Medina, who his attorneys say was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Friday. Daniel Ramirez Medina was taken into custody in Seattle, WA, last week, Reuters reported, after ICE officials came to arrest his father (why ICE officers had come for his father remains unclear). Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Medina had admitted to being a gang member, while his attorneys denied that accusation and said he was not a threat to public safety. Medina’s attorney, Mark Rosenbaum, said his client “unequivocally denies being in a gang” and said “he was repeatedly pressured” by ICE to “falsely admit affiliation.” Richeson’s statement, he said, “is inaccurate.” 
 
 Lawyers allege that Medina is the first immigration action taken by the Trump administration against someone who has been allowed to stay in the country under the Obama administration’s 2012 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) program, which deferred deportation or other adverse immigration actions against individuals who entered the U.S. illegally as children. Ramirez came to the United States when he was 7 years old and became a DACA recipient in 2014 and renewed in 2016, according to court papers filed by his attorneys. The judge ordered the government to reveal whether Medina is still detained and why, “given that he has been granted deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program?” 
 
 The judge is demanding immigration officials say whether he has been placed in “removal proceedings” to deport him as the result of ICE’s initial custody determination. Magistrate Judge James Donohue set a February 24 bond hearing for Daniel Ramirez Medina, thereby extending for a week a case that has roiled pro-immigration groups. The program protects from deportation 750,000 people who were brought to the United States illegally as children, sometimes called “Dreamers”, and gives them the temporary right to work legally in the United States.
– The first case of many? A man brought to the US from Mexico as a child is being detained by immigration authorities despite having been granted a work permit under President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan, Fusion reports. Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, was arrested when Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived at his Seattle home to detain his father for undisclosed reasons, the Guardian reports. He is believed to be the first of around 750,000 "DREAMers" brought to the US illegally as children to be detained in recent immigration raids, and lawyers have filed a petition in federal court seeking his release. Lawyers say Ramirez has been in the country since he was 7 years old and accuse the government of breaking a promise not to target DACA recipients for deportation, the Seattle Times reports. "Trust in our government depends upon the executive branch keeping its word," says Mark Rosenbaum, director of the Public Counsel Law Center, who's representing Ramirez. An ICE spokesperson describes Ramirez as a "self-admitted gang member" who's being detained "to await the outcome of removal proceedings" because he is a risk to public safety, though Rosenbaum says his client denies being in a gang, CNN reports. He says Ramirez was pressured to "falsely admit affiliation" while in immigration custody.