Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made yet another arrest at a New York City immigration court, despite a May ruling from a federal judge that broadly blocked such detentions.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled May 18 that ICE never had the legal justification to make these arrests. His order, which applied to immigration courts in Manhattan, kneecapped the agency’s controversial strategy of detaining people as they arrived for mandatory immigration hearings.
Despite that, ICE has made at least six arrests in Manhattan immigration courts since Castel issued his order. The latest arrest came on Thursday, when agents detained Bronx resident Matar Ndiaye while he was “dutifully attending an immigration court hearing for his asylum claim,” according to court filings.
Contempt charges?
What do you mean by this? First I’m hearing of it
He’d campaigned on reining in the NYPD, but as soon as he was elected he specifically started praising them and hasn’t done anything to curb some of the… well, more problematic elements. It is assumed that they threatened him or something, because him doing nothing about them goes against his supposed worldview and what he campaigned on. It’s very well possible that the realities of being in office or just that his ability to affect things as Mayor isn’t as powerful or robust as he’d thought. In any case, it’s one of the few elements of his campaign he’s gone back on.
Hard to say. Mamdami has a lot of work to do and reforming the NYPD during these times is one of the larger tasks. That might be more for something during his 2nd term if he gets that far.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a lot of flak internally over these issues once he got in.
Oh yeah, I agree. I think it’s dumb to expect everything to get better overnight. The fact that he’s done as much as he has is amazing.