A Delco nurse has lived legally in the U.S. since childhood

“What happened to Monica should be treated as an extrajudicial kidnapping,” said Ryadi’s Philadelphia immigration attorney, Eric Rosenfeld, who is handling the case pro bono.

Arrest and charges

He noted that Ryadi is a registered nurse, the wife of an American citizen, and the parent of a son who is an American citizen — yet ICE casually told her she would be sent to an undisclosed third country.

She was never given any type of document or warrant to explain her arrest, he said.

Upon release she was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor, and she knows ICE will likely try again to deport her, the attorney said.

As the Trump administration pursues its mass-deportation agenda, the protection offered by Withholding and similar relief “is proving to be very little protection at all,” the American Immigration Council wrote.

“The Trump administration is trying to ship them out wherever it can — and keep them locked up in the meantime.”

A Philadelphia man who was arrested in July remains in detention, despite having lived legally for almost 20 years.

Mamadou Fadel Cherif of West Oak Lane was granted protection from potential political violence in his native Guinea.