🚨 BREAKING: Staffer for Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth accused of posing as lawyer in attempt to free illegal immigrant from ICE custody https://t.co/IpWrolbDVX
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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a member of Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office, D-Ill., misrepresented himself as the attorney of a detained illegal immigrant to facilitate their release.
According to a letter sent Wednesday to Duckworth, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons said the staffer told federal agents he was the attorney of Jose Ismeal Ayuzo Sandoval — a 40-year-old illegal immigrant previously deported four times to Mexico and who had a DUI conviction.