IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Massachusetts’ top federal prosecutor defended immigration authorities’ decision to arrest a Chinese woman at a courthouse this week after she was sentenced to probation, a move that outraged the judge overseeing her case. The judge had expressed concern that the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at court proceedings could scare off potential witnesses who faced immigration issues. Immigrant advocates have raised similar worries about courthouse arrests under Republican President Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling in a statement late Thursday [4-26-18] said the ICE agents who took Xinyan Wang, 27, into custody outside Boston’s federal courthouse were ‘doing their jobs: enforcing federal law…’ The arrest occurred after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday sentenced Wang to 12 months of probation for using a fake Chinese passport to take a graduate school entrance exam for another Chinese national.”
–Nate Raymond, “Top Massachusetts federal prosecutor defends court immigration arrest,” Reuters, April 27, 2018 7:15 am