ICE/IMMIGRATION/MASSACHUSETTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Thursday [6-20-19] ruled that U.S. immigration authorities cannot arrest illegal immigrants at Massachusetts courthouses, the first order of its kind barring courthouse arrests. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued an injunction preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, from carrying out a directive authorizing arrests of illegal immigrants in the state’s courts. Talwani enjoined the directive until the case proceeds to a trial, noting in the opinion that as long as the threat of arrests hangs over the state’s courts ‘some state criminal and civil cases may well go unprosecuted for lack of victim or witness participation.’ The judge’s order did not apply to criminal arrests by ICE, although most of the agency’s arrests are civil arrests for violating immigration laws. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
–Tom Hals, “U.S. judge bars immigration arrests at Massachusetts courts,” Reuters, June 20, 2019 2:20 pm