A day later a man was detained while waiting for an New York Cities immigration hearing despite a Federal Judge banning g such actions….
A judge barred federal agents from routinely detaining people who show up for proceedings in New York City’s immigration courts, saying that people shouldn’t have to risk arrest to exercise their legal right to pursue an asylum claim or attend a deportation hearing.
A day after the ruling, a 21-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in one of the federal buildings subject to the court order, a group that advocates for immigrant rights said, raising questions about how closely the judge’s decision was being followed.
The order Monday by Judge P. Kevin Castel addressed a practice begun under the Trump administration that enabled agents to detain people who followed requirements to appear before immigration judges. The arrests resulted in dramatic scenes in courthouse hallways as those being detained were sometimes pulled away from emotional family members.…
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He said federal agents could still detain people at locations away from immigration courts and could also make arrests at courthouses when there are serious threats to public safety.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the arrest that happened Tuesday fell under that exception.
The New York Legal Assistant Group said it would file a legal petition seeking the man’s release. The organization said it has had lawyers in the hallways of Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur for most of the past year.
“We’re not shocked that ICE kept their presence in 26 Federal Plaza despite Judge Castel’s ruling yesterday,” said Benjamin Remy, coordinating senior attorney at NYLAG’s Immigrant Protection Unit.
Kaye Dyja, a spokesperson with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said it was looking into the arrest and “gathering information” to see if it complied with the narrow rules in which agents could still make arrests…..
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