U.S. Releases 21-Year-Old Honduran After ICE Courthouse Arrest Defied Judge's Order
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Updated · The New York Times · May 20
U.S. Releases 21-Year-Old Honduran After ICE Courthouse Arrest Defied Judge's Order
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 20
Vinely Alexander Castillo-Norales, 21, was released Tuesday evening after federal agents detained him that morning at New York’s 26 Federal Plaza immigration court.
The arrest appeared to violate a ruling issued Monday by Judge P. Kevin Castel, who barred arrests at three Manhattan immigration courthouses except in extremely limited circumstances.
Castillo-Norales’s lawyers asked a federal court to intervene, calling the detention a direct breach of the judge’s order issued just a day earlier.
DHS then defended the arrest by describing him as an active Bloods member and citing charges including burglary, robbery, larceny and possession of stolen property, even as the government freed him.
When the government labels an immigrant a 'public safety threat,' what evidence is required before an arrest in a protected space?
An ICE arrest defied a judge's order. Is this an isolated incident or part of a larger, unaddressed pattern?