Massachusetts prosecutors sue ICE over courthouse arrests

[Eugene]

Source: The Hill

A pair of Massachusetts district attorneys filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday, asking that a federal judge place an injunction on the agency’s directive authorizing the arrests of undocumented immigrants at state courthouses.

In the lawsuit, the district attorneys for Middlesex and Suffolk counties allege that an ICE directive authorizing the civil arrests of undocumented immigrants at courthouses is in violation of long-standing practices — and is harming the judicial system.

“Entire communities now view the Massachusetts courts as places where they cannot go, for any reason, greatly impeding access to justice and undermining the administration of justice in these communities,” the complaint reads.

The lawsuit claims that while Congress gave ICE the authority to carry out civil immigration arrests, it “retained traditional common-law limitations on that arrest power — including that such arrests cannot be made against parties and witnesses attending court on official business.”

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BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 04/29/19 12:31 PM EDT


Read more: https://thehill.com/latino/441158-massachusetts-district-attorneys-sue-ice-over-courthouse-arrests

[yaesu]

1. ICE is just another fascist wing of the tRump administration. nt

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Another way Trump toadies to organized crime.

Even if no money actually changes hands betweens criminals and ICE agents, the mere fact that victims who are potential witnesses against the Mob are too afraid to testify means that organized crime has a license to rob, extort and kill.