Does the First Amendment Provide 'Sanctuary' from Removal for Immigration Law Violations?
By Dan Cadman on August 15, 2018
Ravi Ragbir, a native of Trinidad and Tobago and a deportable alien, as well as executive director of the "New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City", has asked the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals to halt his removal, based on an allegation that he was targeted for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because of his activism, thus violating his First Amendment rights to free expression.
This seems to me a chicken-or-egg thing. Is ICE targeting Ragbir because he's executive director of an anti-enforcement progressive leftist coalition that argues in favor of sanctuaries and open borders — or did Ragbir spearhead formation of the coalition hoping it would shield him from the reach of the immigration laws so that, if-and-when apprehended, he could make exactly the claim that he's now making?
https://cis.org/Cadman/Does-First-Amendment-Provide-Sanctuary-Removal-Immigration-Law-Violations
