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1 The Hon. James P. Donohue

Chief Magistrate Judge
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8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
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CASE NO. 2:17-CV-00218-RSM-JPD
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Daniel Ramirez Medina,
13 DECLARATION OF ETHAN D.
Petitioner, DETTMER IN SUPPORT OF
14 PETITIONERS RESPONSE BRIEF RE:
v. COURTS FEBRUARY 14, 2017, ORDER
15 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND DIRECTING SERVICE, SETTING
SECURITY; JOHN KELLY, Secretary of STATUS CONFERENCE, AND
16 Homeland Security; NATHALIE ASHER, SETTING BRIEFING SCHEDULE
Director of the Seattle Field Office of U.S.
17 Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
18 Respondents.
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1 Attorneys for Petitioner

PUBLIC COUNSEL
2 MARK D. ROSENBAUM (CA SBN 59940), pro hac vice
[email protected]
3 JUDY LONDON (CA SBN 149431), pro hac vice
[email protected]
4 KATHRYN A. EIDMAN (CA SBN 268053), pro hac vice
[email protected]
5 ANNE M. HUDSON-PRICE (CA SBN 295930), pro hac vice
[email protected]
6 ELIZABETH HADAWAY (CA SBN 308800), pro hac vice
[email protected]
7 610 South Ardmore Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90005
8 Telephone: (213) 385-2977
Facsimile: (213) 385-9089
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10 GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP

THEODORE J. BOUTROUS, JR. (CA SBN 132099), pro hac vice
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KATHERINE M. MARQUART (CA SBN 248043), pro hac vice
12 [email protected]
JESSE S. GABRIEL (CA SBN 263137), pro hac vice
13 [email protected]
333 South Grand Avenue
14 Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197
Telephone: (213) 229-7000
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16 ETHAN D. DETTMER (CA SBN 196046), pro hac vice
17 [email protected]
555 Mission Street
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Telephone: (415) 393-8200
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ERWIN CHEMERINSKY (DC SBN 289330; IL SBN 3122596), pro hac vice
21 [email protected]
University of California, Irvine School of Law
22 *Affiliation for identification purposes only
401 East Peltason Drive
23 Educ 1095
Irvine, California 92697
24 Telephone: (949) 824-7722
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LAURENCE H. TRIBE (MA SBN 126736; CA SBN 039441), pro hac vice
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Harvard Law School
27 *Affiliation for identification purposes only
1575 Massachusetts Avenue
28 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Telephone: (617) 495-1767
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1 ELIZABETH HAWKINS (SBN 43187)

[email protected]
2 Hawkins Law Group
17544 Midvale Avenue, Suite 301
3 Shoreline, WA 98133
Telephone: (206) 728-4220
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BARRERA LEGAL GROUP, PLLC
6 LUIS CORTES ROMERO (CA SBN 310852), pro hac vice
[email protected]
7 JOHN C. BARRERA (SBN 47658), pro hac vice
[email protected]
8 JOSE GARCIA (SBN 46518), pro hac vice
[email protected]
9 19309 68th Avenue South, Suite R102
Kent, WA 98032
10 Telephone: (253) 872-4730
Facsimile: (253) 237-1591
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12 NORTHWEST IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT

MATT ADAMS (SBN 28287)
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615 Second Ave., Suite 400
14 Seattle, WA 98104
Telephone: (206) 957-8611
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1 I, Ethan D. Dettmer, declare as follows:

2 1. I am an attorney admitted to practice law pro hac vice before this Court. I am a partner at the
3 law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and I am one of the attorneys representing Daniel
4 Ramirez Medina (Mr. Ramirez) in this case. I submit this declaration in support of Mr.
5 Ramirezs Response to the Respondents Brief re: Courts February 14, 2017, Order Directing
6 Service, Setting Status Conference, and Setting Briefing Schedule. The following facts are
7 within my personal knowledge and, if called and sworn as a witness, I would testify
8 competently to these facts.
9 2. At about 9:30 in the morning on Monday, February 13, 2017, my colleague Mark Rosenbaum
10 and I called Priscilla Chan, an Assistant United States Attorney in Seattle. We left Ms. Chan
11 a voice mail message informing her about the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus we had just
12 filed, and requesting that she return our call.
13 3. At approximately 4:00 p.m. that same day, Ms. Chan returned the phone message. Mr.
14 Rosenbaum and I told her that we had filed the case, explained the background to her and our
15 expectation that Mr. Ramirezs detention was likely a mistake. We asked that he be released
16 from detention promptly. Mr. Rosenbaum and I explained that Mr. Ramirez is a DACA
17 holder, should not have been detained in the first place, and should be released right away.
18 Ms. Chan indicated that she had not yet seen the petition, so we offered to email it to her, and
19 did so shortly thereafter. We agreed with Ms. Chan that we would speak further at 1:30 p.m.
20 the next day.
21 4. At about 11:46 a.m. on Tuesday, February 14, 2017, we received an email from Ms. Chan
22 informing us that the case had been assigned to the DOJs Office of Immigration Litigation
23 (OIL) in D.C. She indicated that she would send us the contact information for the specific
24 lawyer when that person was identified.
25 5. Shortly before 5 p.m. on the same day, we were contacted by Jeffrey Robins, Assistant
26 Director of OIL in Washington, D.C., telling us that he would be the lawyer responsible for
27 this matter for the government. We spoke with Mr. Robins at approximately 5:45 that
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1 detention was just a mistake, and that he should be released. Mr. Robins responded by saying
2 that he would not be released, and that it is the governments position that Mr. Ramirez is
3 affiliated with a gang, and that the government had begun removal proceedings.
4 6. Mr. Rosenbaum and I asked Mr. Robins what evidence he had that Mr. Ramirez was
5 affiliated with a gang. Mr. Robins said that he understood that Mr. Ramirez has a tattoo. We
6 asked what evidence Mr. Robins had that Mr. Ramirezs tattoo had anything to do with gangs,
7 and Mr. Robins said that he had none. Though he was asked to provide it, Mr. Robins had no
8 other evidence in support of the claim that Mr. Ramirez was affiliated with a gang or was
9 ever in a gang.
10 7. Mr. Robins also said during our call that Mr. Ramirez had received a Notice to Appear
11 while in detention. We told him that we had not seen that document and, to our knowledge, it
12 had not been served on Mr. Ramirez.
13 8. Mr. Rosenbaum and I concluded our call with Mr. Robins by asking that he please inform us
14 of any evidence other than the alleged confession and the alleged gang tattoo that DHS has or
15 develops in support of the conclusion that Mr. Ramirez is a gang member or has any gang
16 affiliation.
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18 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States and the State of
19 Washington that the foregoing is true and correct, and that I executed this Declaration on February
20 16, 2017 in San Francisco, California.
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22 /s/ Ethan D. Dettmer _

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