legal actions<\/a>\u00a0from the Republican administration targeting state and local policies over immigration enforcement.<\/p>\nThe lawsuit challenged a 2020 state law banning federal immigration officials from arresting people who are coming and going from New York courthouses or in court for proceedings unless they have a warrant signed by a judge. The law, called the Protect Our Courts Act, was approved in response to enforcement actions at courthouses during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term. The law doesn\u2019t cover federal immigration courts.<\/p>\n
In its lawsuit, the Department of Justice claimed that the New York law and two related state executive orders were unconstitutional because they obstructed the execution of federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Agostino, though, found that New York\u2019s decision not to participate in enforcing civil immigration law is protected by the 10th Amendment, which sets boundaries on the federal government\u2019s powers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFundamentally, the United States fails to identify any federal law mandating that state and local officials generally assist or cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. Nor could it,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cNo such federal laws exist because the Tenth Amendment prohibits Congress from conscripting state and local officials and resources to assist with federal regulatory schemes, like immigration enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Justice Department didn\u2019t immediately respond to a Tuesday email seeking comment about the ruling, including whether it plans to appeal.<\/p>\n
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat whose office argued for the lawsuit to be dismissed, said she was fighting for the \u201cdignity and rights of immigrant communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone deserves to seek justice without fear,\u201d James said in a statement. \u201cThis ruling ensures that anyone can use New York\u2019s state courts without being targeted by federal authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MICHAEL HILL,\u00a0Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A judge has dismissed a Trump administration\u00a0legal challenge to New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25224,25226,9,11,10,49,51,50,25225],"class_list":["post-44331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ice-in-courts","tag-immigration-agents-in-courthouses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44331","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=44331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}