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Morales Reyes has been detained at Dodge Detention Center in Juneau, which is about 70 miles (112.65 kilometers) north of Milwaukee.Homeland Security officials have not publicly corrected the information on the presidential threat.

Instead they’ve doubled down on pursuing an immigration case against him. They allege Morales Reyes entered the country illegally at least nine times between 1998 and 2005 and that he has a criminal background.“This criminal illegal alien is no longer under investigation for threats against the President, but will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings,” DHS said in a statement Wednesday.Morales Reyes is accused of two incidents in 1996, according to his attorneys.

In one he was arrested for damaging property in a hit-and-run but not charged. In another he was ticketed for disorderly conduct and criminal damage after a dispute with his wife. No one was injured, according to his attorney.Attorneys for Morales Reyes said the information on the threat should be corrected quickly as their client and his family are facing harassment and threats.

“This administration has jumped quickly to make announcements that they think will play well to their narrative of immigrants being dangerous,” said attorney Cain Oulahan.

Immigrant rights advocates have rallied around Morales Reyes, including a group who stood outside a downtown Chicago immigration court Wednesday ahead of a brief hearing in the deportation case. Several held a large banner that read, “Stop Scapegoating Immigrants.”Biden responded in a statement Wednesday night: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

The Justice Department under Democratic and Republican administrations has recognized the use of an autopen to sign legislation and issue pardons for decades, Trump presented no evidence that Biden was unaware of the actions taken in his name, and the president’s absolute pardon power is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.“This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,” Trump wrote in a memo. “The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden’s signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.”

Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington to handle the investigation.It’s unclear how far Trump will push this effort, which would face certain legal challenges. But it reflects his fixation on Biden, who