The emails, obtained by "Tucker Carlson Tonight," revealed how a request made by the activist, who beforehand has called for the abolition of ICE, quickly discovered its way to the inbox of acting ICE Director Tae Johnson and ended in a call to halt the deportation for 14 days.
Tania Mattos, a policy director at Freedom for Immigrants and a former recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, wrote to Angela Kelley, a senior immigration counselor at the Department of Homeland Security on June 7, pleading for a stay of deportation for Marvin Jerezano-Peña, who she announced was in ICE detention and scheduled to be deported.
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Mattos has been a supporter of the "Abolish ICE" movement, which attempts to scrap immigration detention. In 2020, she tweeted that she was "unapologetically #Abolish Detention #AbolishES #AbolishPrisons." She did not respond to a request for comment.
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"We’re seeking a stay of removal from ICE and permanent release," she wrote to Kelley.
Mattos announced that Peña should not be a priority for deportation under new ICE guidelines, citing his status as a former DACA recipient married to a U.S. citizen with a 2-year-old son. She explained his case served as "an example of how many immigrants who interact with the criminal justice system are separated from their families unfairly," asking for help in stopping his deportation.
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Kelley quickly sent the email as a "time sensitive matter" to ICE chief of staff Timothy Perry, who immediately requested a report on the subject. Hours later, officials sent back the report, which included a series of arrests and convictions in New Jersey.
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In 2015, he was arrested for "robbery and simple assault" before being convicted the following year of knowingly accepting stolen property. In 2019, he was arrested for violation of parole and a failure to report. Other arrests were for drug possession. A judge ordered his deportation to Mexico in 2020, and an appeal was unsuccessful, according to the report.
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Minutes after Perry got the report, the chief of staff emailed the record to Johnson, stressing he had "mentioned this on our call earlier."
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Later that same day, Johnson emailed a number of officials asking: "Can we grant a 14 day stay of removal in this case to provide time to gather additional details."
"Will do," responded Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Corey Price.
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