An attorney for one of the founders of YubaNet news website, Pascale Fusshoeller, does not understand why Immigration Customs Enforcement agents acted so swiftly when taking Fuesholler into custody Friday after being arrested earlier in the week following a minor traffic incident.
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Attorney Thomas A Johnson says the incident uncovered the fact that Fusshoeller was in the United States on an expired VISA. Johnson says that Pascale could have been issued a citation for providing false identification. However, the officer arrested her for felony false impersonation.
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Johnson says that at any point a number of interventions could have taken place at either the state or the federal level that could have precluded the ICE action. As a result of no intervention Pascale is in custody at the Sacramento County Jail fearing for her future. Johnson says they are doing everything possible on Pascale’s behalf, but she is struggling.
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Johnson and others are trying to get in front of a Federal Judge to place a stay on Fussehoeller’s deportation pending review of Pascale’s marital status as well as good standing and community involvement in Nevada County.