In the past one year, hundreds of people were arrested when they went to immigration courts in regards to the legal asylum cases or citizenship cases. Turns out that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was lying about having the authority to arrest at immigration courts, a court filing reveals.
In a court filing on Tuesday, Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Oestericher of the Southern District of New York revealed that a memo the government had relied on to support the arrest of hundreds of immigrants appearing at immigration courts “does not and has never authorized” civil immigration enforcement actions at those courts.
