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DACA detainee lawyers say President Trump supports their client

Ramirez has been in custody for 28 days and will spend his birthday, Thursday, at the immigration detention center in Seattle.

ICE agents arrested him at his father's home in Des Moines, despite his having legal status under DACA - the program for children brought here illegally through no fault of their own

ICE agents claim Ramirez admitted to having gang ties -- a claim his lawyers dispute.

Today Department of Justice lawyers argued that Ramirez's case should continue in its own immigration courts, as immigration cases routinely.

But Ramirez's lawyers say the arrest violated due process. They asked Federal Magistrate Judge James Donohoe to keep the case in the independent Federal Court system.

“DACA is beside the point in the immigration courts. Federal courts exist to rule on federal constitutional questions and that's not going to take place in the immigration courts. That why jurisdiction is so important,” said Ramirez attorney Mike Rosenbaum.

President Trump has stepped up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally.

But another of Ramirez's lawyers told the court that the president is on their side when it comes to the DACA kids.

“We're going to deal with DACA with heart,” Trump has said as a candidate and president.

“He feels that it's an important thing to protect these young people and so yeah I do think he agrees with this policy,” said Ramirez lawyer Theodore Boutrous.

A decision in favor of Ramirez would protect DACA immigrants all over the country.

“That becomes a statement of a federal court and that is what the executive has to pay attention to,” Rosenbaum said.

Judge Donohoe said he will issue a ruling by early next week.