Federal judge rules ICE courthouse arrests in New York state are illegal
Local officials have long argued the arrests for immigration violations hamper the investigation and prosecution of crime.
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"The Court declares ICE’s policy of courthouse arrests, as now embodied in the Directive, to be illegal," Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in Wednesday's opinion, contrasting the arrests with the challenges COVID-19 has brought to the court system.
"It is one thing for the state courts to try to deal with the impediments brought on by a pandemic," he wrote, "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.”
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