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It wasn’t immediately clear whether the arrest that happened Tuesday fell under that exception.<\/p>\n
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The New York Legal Assistant Group said it would file a legal petition seeking the man\u2019s release. The organization said it has had lawyers in the hallways of Manhattan buildings where immigration proceedings occur for most of the past year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not shocked that ICE kept their presence in 26 Federal Plaza despite Judge Castel\u2019s ruling yesterday,\u201d said Benjamin Remy, coordinating senior attorney at NYLAG\u2019s Immigrant Protection Unit.<\/p>\n
Kaye Dyja, a spokesperson with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said it was looking into the arrest and “gathering information\u201d to see if it complied with the narrow rules in which agents could still make arrests.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat, said the arrest seemed to be a \u201cblatant violation of a court order.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is an absolutely outrageous thumb-in-the-eye of our Constitution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment. In an earlier statement criticizing the judge’s ruling, it said it was \u201ccommon sense to take illegal aliens into custody following the completion of their removal proceedings\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing prohibits arresting a lawbreaker where you find them. We are confident we will ultimately be vindicated in this case,\u201d said a statement released by the department.<\/p>\n
Castel\u2019s decision, which did not apply nationwide, pertained to immigration courts at 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Varick Street and 290 Broadway in Manhattan. New York\u2019s FBI headquarters is also located at 26 Federal Plaza, a large building across from two federal courthouses near City Hall.<\/p>\n
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The judge had previously declined to halt immigration arrests in those buildings, but he changed course after government lawyers informed the court that they learned that certain policies regarding arrests in and around courthouses set by the President Donald Trump’s administration in 2025 did not apply to immigration courts after all.<\/p>\n
Castel said the new position by government lawyers meant it was necessary to \u201ccorrect a clear error and prevent a manifest injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the NYCLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, Make the Road NY and others.<\/p>\n
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It was praised by Amy Belsher, director of the NYCLU’s Immigrants\u2019 Rights Litigation.<\/p>\n
She called it \u201can enormous win for noncitizen New Yorkers seeking to safely attend their immigration court proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – A Dominican man, left, and an activist, right, are detained by plainclothes officers with Immigration and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92496,92938,5320,153,92495,9,24,55,54,56,833,834,3065,2336,829,831,27231],"class_list":["post-237659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-amy-belsher","tag-benjamin-remy","tag-dan-goldman","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice-immigration-courts-arrests-ruling","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}