A 31-year-old Peruvian asylum-seeker with developmental and auditory disabilities was held in immigration detention for more than a week, without contact with his attorneys or family, after being arrested by ICE following a routine court hearing in Manhattan.
Edwin Velasquez Munoz, who had been living in Long Island with his sister and cousin, his primary caregivers, was detained on July 2 after attending an immigration court hearing, according to his attorneys at the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG).
