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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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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 271 points 5 days ago

So the message is ...... if you are contacted by any law or legal service in the US .... hide and disappear, don't take part in anything to do with government or law enforcement.

Great work America ... a few more steps and it will become a completely lawless country.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 always has been

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

lol .... I never comment on emojis but these were funny

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 31 points 5 days ago

No way those denied a legal path will turn to organized crime. Unpossible!

/s

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 23 points 3 days ago

Plainclothes ~~U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (|CE)~~ agents

ITYM secret police

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 34 points 4 days ago

Even if you believe that horrible people don't deserve due process, you cannot determine that without due process.

[-] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 162 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Copied my comment from an earlier link to this article:

So the guy who got picked up is currently detained without charge, after having his original charges dismissed. Brian Sullivan, the ICE agent, was held in contempt, which might turn into a charge, and is currently free.

Certainly sounds like Brian Sullivan is enjoying his due process while denying others theirs.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago

I don't care how evil you are what you did. You deserve due process as that is a basic human right.

We need rule of law especially now more than ever

[-] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 days ago

That's the thing people seem to miss (although they seem to be coming around a bit). What you did or how evil you are can only be determined by due process.

[-] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What you did or how evil you are can only be determined by due process.

Yes. Without due process for everyone, no American is 'innocent until proven guilty'. You are guilty until they decide otherwise.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Without due process for everyone, no ~~American~~ person is 'innocent until proven guilty'.

FTFY

It's amazing how many people think you need to be a citizen of the US to have due process.

[-] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We are in agreement. Either everyone has the right to due process, or there is no due process at all.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

Martell-Lebron was, in fact, Juan Carlos Baez, 49, a Dominican national in the U.S. illegally since 2000

So even if you’re a legal non-Spanish person, they will give you a Spanish name and say you’re illegal

[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

ICE told Newsweek

You left this important part of the quote. And no where in the article does it provide any proof of that claim, for anyone wondering.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 46 points 4 days ago

Unlawful arrests lead to people fighting back, and officers getting hurt. Not a good direction to be going.

[-] tane@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago

Ice officers deserve worse than just to be hurt tbf

[-] FatCrab@lemmy.one 12 points 4 days ago

Sure would suck if the ICE agent, Brian Sullivan, who was held in contempt by the judge and for whom a bench warrant was issued, was beaten with a bat until compliant with being arrested and dragged into custody. Would just be a travesty.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago

IDK, the second half of that first sentence sounds like a good thing, and long overdue

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

People fighting back vs. The police that has tanks... TiananMcDonals...

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's some revolutionary war style tactics. Warfare has changed.

[-] 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 4 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 4 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.

[-] jimbolauski@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

The ice agents didn't kick open the door walk over to the defendant and drag him out all while the judge was banging his gavel. They waited outside the courthouse and picked him up there.

[-] IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 5 days ago
[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 43 points 5 days ago

If there were stats on emoticon usage, this one has to have skyrocketed straight up.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This feels like a gag out of Family Guy or South Park or something. Good thing people are protesting!

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 28 points 4 days ago

NO TRIAL FOR YOU.

Why didn't the bailiff stop the kidnapping? Isn't he armed for this reason?

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It was right outside the courtroom. Since there are breaks and sometimes multi day trials, there are ways a defendant could be "in the middle of a trial" and not be in the actual courtroom, where the bailiff would be.

[-] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 10 points 4 days ago

"

You dropped this. Funny, this is the second one I've picked up today.

[-] jimbolauski@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

The headline is misleading, he was picked up as he left the building his trial was continuing to the next day.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 22 points 4 days ago

We have tried nothing and already ran out of ideas.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 12 points 4 days ago

Well at least we gave it our best

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Literally 2nd amendment.

  • If they don't identify themselves: right to bear arms and self defense.
  • If they do, they fit clearly under the "tyranny" part of the same amendment.
[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 4 days ago

Police should probably be arresting kidnappers..

[-] prole 10 points 5 days ago

Jack boot thugs

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

ICE is jerks.

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