[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted at courthouses in the state are illegal.\u00a0 Elected officials, police representatives, prosecutors’ offices, and immigration advocates have all decried the practice, which they say interferes with their ability to pursue criminal investigations and undermines the justice system.\u00a0 The case to stop the practice was brought by the New York Attorney General and District Attorney for the Brooklyn borough of New York City.<\/p>\n
See the full news story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n What remains to be seen is whether or not ICE will abide by the ruling.\u00a0 Ordinarily, one would expect a government agency to follow a court’s orders and obey the law.\u00a0 However, this has not always been the case for this particular issue.\u00a0 Last October, California passed AB 668 which includes protection from civil arrest at a courthouse unless pursuant to a valid judicial warrant.\u00a0 ICE openly ignored the California law in February and March, arresting at least seven people for immigration offenses in Northern California courthouses.\u00a0 At the time, ICE argued that California law does not supersede federal law.\u00a0 It remains to be seen whether ICE will obey a federal court order in New York.<\/p>\n The uncertainty of immigration law and immigration enforcement actions over the past few years is a constant worry for immigration lawyers<\/a>.\u00a0 The immigration team at the Law Offices of Scott Warmuth constantly monitor the rapidly-evolving immigration situation with the ultimate goal of helping our clients.\u00a0 If you have a question about immigration and living or working legally in the United States, call us today at 888-517-9888 to receive a free consultation.\u00a0 For immigrants facing legal trouble and potential removal from the United States, we also provide criminal defense<\/a> and deportation defense<\/a> services.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted at courthouses in the state are illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}