A second man was arrested by federal agents in Portland Immigration Court as he appeared Thursday for an asylum case and lawyers petitioned to block his removal from Oregon.

By day’s end, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials not to take the 24-year-old Mexican national out of the state without providing notice in writing to him with its reasoning “why such a move is necessary.”

If immigration agents have already transferred the man to a federal detention center, Simon ordered ICE, the attorney general and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to notify him within two hours of being served with his order.

The man is identified in court documents only as Y-Z-L-H.

According to his lawyers, he came to the United States to esca

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