ICE Arrest Foiled By Activist Who Knows The Law: 'You Have No Jurisdiction Over Me'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An immigrant rights activist in New York stopped Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents from arresting two community members by simply reciting his constitutional rights.

Bryan MacCormack, executive director of the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, had been escorting two undocumented immigrants on March 5 to Hudson City Court, roughly 130 miles north of New York City, when the incident occurred.

As they were leaving the court, ICE deportation agents pulled over MacCormack’s car with the undocumented immigrants inside, according to a statement released by CCSM, an immigrant rights advocacy group.

The ICE agents then surrounded the vehicle and approached the driver’s side window to ask MacCormack for identification, which he said he produced. One of the agents allegedly produced a “warrant of arrest of alien,” a document authorized by the Department of Homeland Security.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-agents-arrest-rights_n_5c9b86ebe4b07c88662ed4c7?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Please check out the video at the link. It's in a format that can't be shared here.

[LonePirate]

1. If we had decent human beings running ICE, those racist agents would be fired for doing that.

I'm sure there are some decent ICE agents who work with honor and without racism; but the more stories I hear like this one, the more I want us to shut down the entire agency. There are so many despicable people working in ICE that dissolving the agency is the only way to get rid of them all.

[DBoon]

2. They just have to respect the law and the US Constitution

In their darkest hearts they can be as malign as they wish but they still need to uphold the LAW

[Kali]

3. more people need to tell these assholes to fuck off

in a polite and legal manner, of course.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Could you please provide a summary of what is said? Some have to pay

extra for the gigs/bandwidth that video eats up.

[RHMerriman]

5. Basically, without an arrest warrant signed by a judge, a US citizen can

Basically, without an arrest warrant signed by a judge, a US citizen can refuse entry to their home or vehicle of ICE employees seeking to arrest foreign nationals.

The ICE employees will wave around a written order they have from their supervisors and call it a warrant, but it's not.

Now, if they find the foreign national on the street, they can take them into custody, but if the foreign national is in a vehicle being driven by a US citizen, the US citizen has to give them permission to open the doors of the car; same for a building.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. NICE! Thank you

[RHMerriman]

9. Not a problem

Not a problem...

ICE employees are to actual cops as semipro is to the NFL.

Bunch of wannabees pretending to be something they're not.

[uppityperson]

7. K&R

[Beakybird]

8. Cool story!