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1:19-cv-11003
Massachusetts
Other Statutes: Administrative Procedures Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision
Indira Talwani
Banning arrests by immigration officers at courthouses would lead to "armed confrontations" between state and federal officers, the legal arm of anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform said Friday in an amicus brief.
Citing the executive branch's "undoubted power" to arrest unauthorized immigrants., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a federal judge late Monday to deny a pair of Massachusetts district attorneys' bid to stop courthouse immigrant arrests.
Criticizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for showing up in her courtroom has landed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in murky waters as she now hears a suit challenging ICE courthouse arrests, but legal experts say she could still be impartial in the first-of-its-kind case.
Two Boston-area district attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's practice of arresting unauthorized immigrants at courthouses.