Three days after federal immigration agents detained Hediberto Ramirez Perez following a raid at the Nutrition Bar Confectioner\u2019s raid last September in Cayuga County, he found himself in Guatemala \u2014 thousands of miles away from his family despite have a valid work permit.<\/p>\n
Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union is now arguing that he should be returned while a lawsuit against the government over that raid plays out in court. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYCLU argues the raid at the factory violated “Eddie” Ramirez Perez’s Fourth Amendment rights, and that his arrest was \u201cwarrantless.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDefendants had no legal authority to remove Eddie, whose cancellation of removal application was (and is) pending and who had no final order of removal at that time,\u201d the preliminary injunction request reads. \u00a0<\/p>\n
In the case of Argentina Juarez-Lopez<\/a>, a woman who was detained and charged with illegal reentry into the U.S. during the raid, a judge ruled in December 2025 that the actions by immigration officials violated her Fourth Amendment rights, leading to federal prosecutors dropping the felony charge of illegal reentry. Juarez-Lopez was still deported despite the felony charge being dropped.<\/p>\n The motion for an injunction comes after the NYCLU filed a lawsuit last week against<\/a> individual agents for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Cayuga and Oswego County sheriff\u2019s departments and the Trump administration for last year\u2019s raid. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEddie requests that defendants facilitate his return to the United States by providing him with travel documents to permit his lawful admission at a port of entry and his travel to this judicial district,\u201d the document reads. \u00a0<\/p>\n In response to the move for a preliminary injunction, a DHS spokesperson sent the following statement: \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cICE will comply with all lawful court orders,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n