ICE Increases Courtroom Deportation Arrests Amid Rising Tensions
TL;DR
Immigration courts in New York City are experiencing chaos as federal agents, often masked, conduct surprise arrests of immigrants during routine hearings, leading to overcrowded detention facilities, protests, and concerns over the erosion of safe legal spaces for immigrants amid an accelerated crackdown under the Trump administration.
- Inside a Courthouse, Chaos and Tears as Trump Accelerates Deportations The New York Times
- Immigrant rights groups say ICE officers 'ambush noncitizens' in courthouse arrests, ask judge to intervene ABC News
- ICE's novel strategy allows for more arrests from inside immigration courts NPR
- ICE steps up migrant arrests in courtrooms across U.S. Axios
- Two men detained by ICE after Sacramento immigration court hearings KCRA
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