Judge postpones hearing for mother arrested by ICE in Worcester
An immigration judge in Chelmsford on Tuesday postponed an individual hearing for a mother of three who was arrested by federal immigration agents in Worcester in May.
Immigration Judge Yul-Mi Cho postponed the hearing for Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira of Brazil due to a previous hearing taking longer than expected, according to Ferreira-De Oliveira’s lawyer, Paul Toland.
An individual hearing is when a person and their lawyer present a case for them to stay in the United States.
It is not uncommon for individual hearings to be postponed due to time constraints, Toland told MassLive.
“Unfortunately, delays do happen in court,” he said. “Today, it was due to an overflow from a prior hearing that flowed into our time slot. It happens.”
The judge did not offer a new hearing date on Tuesday. But Toland said that a hearing will be announced in one to two days.
Ferreira-De Oliveira was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Eureka Street in Worcester in May.
The Department of Homeland Security has claimed that Ferreira-De Oliveria entered the country illegally in August 2022.
Toland said that the mother was paroled and allowed into the country by ICE as she pursued asylum.
The agency also called her a “violent criminal illegal alien,” citing a previous charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant victim she had received earlier this year.
That charge, however, was dismissed in July, as the complaining witness did not wish to proceed in the case.
The May 8 arrest descended into pandemonium, as more than 30 people confronted ICE agents, yelling at them to not take the mother and show a warrant for the arrest.
As that was happening, Ferreira-De Oliveria’s adult daughter, Augusta Clara Moura, and her 17-year-old daughter watched as agents detained their mother.
By 11 a.m., members of the Worcester Police Department had arrived at the street after they received calls from agents and members of the public.
A member of the department told bystanders over a loudspeaker that they were conducting an unlawful assembly. Bystanders confronted officers, accusing them of cooperating with ICE.
Ferreira-De Oliveria was placed in a gold SUV after being arrested by the agents.
Some of the officers approached the SUV, telling people to move away from the vehicle, according to police body camera footage released by the city. As the vehicle began to drive away, Ferreira-De Oliveira’s 17-year-old daughter ran after it.
Police officers gathered around her and arrested her, moving her to the ground.
She was charged with reckless endangerment of a child, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Eight days later, on May 16, Worcester Police Chief Paul Saucier asked a judge to dismiss the case.
Augusta Clara Moura and her infant son left the United States to Brazil to be with her partner, Samarone Alves Ferreira-De Souza.
Andrew Lattrulo of Georges Cote Law, a lawyer for Ferreira-De Oliveira’s family, previously told MassLive that ICE signed a document authorizing the deportation of Ferreira-De Souza in his name without his permission.
The 17-year-old and Ferreira-De Oliveria’s youngest daughter, a 13-year-old, were placed in the care of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) following their mother’s detention.
It was reported in July, however, that the two daughters went missing.
The 13-year-old was found in August and is back in the care of DCF, according to the Worcester Police Department. The 17-year-old is still reported as missing, according to the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children .
Lattrulo, however, previously told MassLive that the child is back in Brazil under the care of Clara Moura.
Following her arrest, Ferreira-De Oliveria was originally held at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island. She was then transferred to the Strafford County Corrections facility in Dover, New Hampshire.
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