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ICE detains defendant in middle of his own trial (www.newsweek.com)

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Federal immigration agents arrested an immigrant as he was leaving court on the first day of his trial in Massachusetts on Thursday, with a judge now holding one agent in contempt for disrupting due process.

Plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at the court in Boston and took Wilson Martell-Lebron without prior notice, according to The Boston Globe.

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[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 72 points 5 days ago

So plain clothes guys can just abduct people in courtrooms now?

[-] Steve@startrek.website 44 points 5 days ago

Yes but the judge will be MIFFED and do nothing.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 days ago

All of America ran on the assumption that people played along with the system and trump et al. Called the bluff by openly and shamelessly breaking the rules and watching as nothing was done about it. First the rules of decorum, then the law once they normalized it.

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 days ago

Until that judge gets detained for having a foreign sounding name.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Funny you should put it like that...

“You all could’ve picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane, thinking I’m a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it,” the judge said.

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