BOSTON: Rallies at federal immigration offices across the country have called for the release of Eduardo Samaniego, an immigration activist from Massachusetts facing deportation.
In New York City, Los Angles, Boston, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut, small crowds of supporters held signs saying “Free Eduardo Now” and chanted and banged drums as they delivered petitions to officials at the federal offices.
In court, Ghalib says she’ll seek a special hearing to consider her client’s competency. He is being transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Colombia, South Carolina, she said.