May 21, 2021
A pair of Boston-area district attorneys on Friday dropped their suit challenging a federal government policy allowing civil immigration arrests in courthouses after the Biden administration issued new guidance limiting the practice.
May 11, 2021
A lawsuit claiming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at Massachusetts courthouses were illegal won't be resolved until at least 2022, after a federal judge granted the litigants time to assess a new Biden administration directive limiting such arrests.
February 20, 2020
Massachusetts officials suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement over warrantless arrests at state courthouses got a boost Thursday from Harvard Law School's immigrant and refugee clinic, whose leadership said state courts are being illegally forced to carry out a federal agenda not enumerated in the Constitution and to sideline Sixth Amendment trial rights.
January 31, 2020
A pair of Boston-area district attorneys, a community organization and the state's public defenders argued Friday that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement's civil arrests in courthouses has created "widespread fear of going to court" in an effort to keep a suit alive to end the practice.
December 16, 2019
The Trump administration is defending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's authority to arrest suspected unauthorized immigrants at Massachusetts state courthouses, telling a Boston federal court Friday that the agency can make its arrests anywhere.
August 16, 2019
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday appealed a federal judge's decision to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the agency from making civil arrests at state courthouses in Massachusetts.
July 19, 2019
Boston courthouses have been hopping as spring has turned to summer and high-profile white collar cases, the anticipated verdict in a landmark education and employment case, and a pair of cases dealing with courthouse immigration arrests have been filling up the Bay State's dockets. Here, Law360 highlights some of the most important cases to watch in the second half of 2019.
June 20, 2019
A Boston federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from making civil arrests at Massachusetts state courthouses, siding with two district attorneys in a showdown between state and federal authorities.
May 28, 2019
Boston's district attorney said Tuesday her office is left "picking up the pieces" after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports a criminal defendant without telling them, contradicting the federal government's version of when and how it arrests suspected unauthorized immigrants in courthouses.
May 23, 2019
A federal judge said Thursday she could buy into an argument by a pair of Boston-area district attorneys that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive allowing for civil arrests in courthouses could make undocumented immigrants afraid to show up to court, even without specific examples.