Worker injured in Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans to be deported
A federal judge ordered the man be returned to Honduras in 2016, immigration officials said.
Oct. 19, 2019, 3:30 PM PDT
By Dennis Romero
A Honduran worker injured in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans is being held for deportation, immigration authorities said Saturday.
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, part of a group of workers suing the developers of the structure that collapsed Oct. 12, was arrested Monday and detained for deportation, said Bryan D. Cox, acting press secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.A federal judge ordered that Ramirez be returned to his home country of Honduras in 2016, Cox said.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Ramirez was arrested by Border Patrol agents for allegedly fishing without a license at the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.
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