Dem Rep. Goldman Condemns ICE Detentions at NYC Court Appearances: ‘Gestapo-Like Behavior’

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GOLDMAN: “The Department of Homeland Security has implemented, over the last week, a coordinated effort to do an end run around our legal system in order to remove non-violent, non-criminal immigrants trying to come into this country through a lawful pathway of immigration proceedings, in many cases asylum proceedings. And by recommending dismissal of their cases, the Department of Homeland Security is essentially taking jurisdiction away from the court, removing the asylum application from going forward, and then allowing the immigration agents to arrest these people and put them in a deportation proceeding with — under a different authority than the one that they just dismissed, which has fewer rights and applies in very few circumstances, almost never internally in the country, almost always at the border. This is Gestapo-like behavior where plain clothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings and trying to come into this country lawfully, which is through asylum."