Judge Talwani Blocks Immigration Enforcement in Massachusetts Courthouses
By Andrew R. Arthur on June 24, 2019
In a June 5, 2019, post, I discussed the case of Ryan vs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in which state prosecutors in Massachusetts joined with public defenders and "civil litigants" to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for making arrests of aliens subject to removal at state courthouses. On June 20, 2019, Judge Indira Talwani of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction preventing ICE "from civilly arresting parties, witnesses, and others attending Massachusetts courthouses on official business while they are going to, attending, or leaving the courthouses."
In that earlier post, I noted that Judge Talwani had made well-publicized statements objecting to ICE courthouse arrests, and argued that to eliminate any questions of impartiality, Judge Talwani should ask that case be reassigned. She did not.
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