SPOKANE, Wash. – Cesar Perez, whose detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement caused protests in June, has chosen to self-deport after more than two months at the Tacoma Detention Center.

Former City Council President and Perez’s legal guardian Ben Stuckart announced the news on Facebook, writing that “he is now being sent back to a horrible place he spent years escaping.”

by an immigration judge just over a week ago, but had the opportunity to appeal the order anytime before September 19, 2025.

Stuckart did not specify when Perez chose to self deport, but wrote that “being detained in a cell when you have done nothing wrong, are 21 and scared … leads to these decisions.”

He said that Perez was informed that he would be leaving the Tacoma Detention Center and sent back to Venez

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