Courthouse News Service: Judge Declares Courthouse Immigration Arrests Illegal in New York

Courthouse News Service: Judge Declares Courthouse Immigration Arrests Illegal in New York by Adam Klasfeld:

Sowing chaos and intimidation throughout New York’s judicial system, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s policy of arresting people in state courthouses is illegal, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

“Recent events confirm the need for freely and fully functioning state courts, not least in the state of New York,” U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in a blistering, 24-page opinion. “But it is one thing for the state courts to try to deal with the impediments brought on by a pandemic, and quite another for them to have to grapple with disruptions and intimidations artificially imposed by an agency of the federal government in violation of long-standing privileges and fundamental principles of federalism and of separation of powers.”

State of New York v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 19-cv-8876 (JSR) (S.D. N.Y. June 10, 2020).

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