Caribbean immigration advocates welcome court ruling striking down ICE courthouse arrest policy

According to Caribbean Life News, Caribbean immigration advocates in New York have welcomed a federal court’s ruling in striking down a policy by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in arresting Caribbean and other immigrants at courthouse appearances. In a momentous victory for immigrants’ rights, the Southern District Court of New York on Thursday, Oct. 1, issued a final, landmark ruling in African Communities Together and The Door v. Todd Lyons in striking down one of the Trump administration’s more extreme policies that allowed ICE agents to arrest Caribbean and other immigrants for showing up at immigration court. “With this ruling, ICE officers cannot conduct civil immigration enforcement actions in or near immigration courthouses, except under limited circumstances, in New York City and across the nation,” Harold Solis, co-legal director for the immigrant advocacy group, Make the Road New York (MRNY), told C