Posted on 11/18/2025 9:37:23 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the Trump administration’s challenge to a New York law that blocks immigration arrests for people traveling to and from state courthouses.
U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino rejected the administration’s claims that New York’s restrictions create unconstitutional obstacles to immigration enforcement and are preempted by federal law.
“To hold to the contrary would improperly elevate the concerns of the federal sovereign over that of a State and deprive New York of its essential ability to protect its sovereign interests in the face of undue federal interference,” D’Agostino wrote in her 41-page opinion.
New York passed the Protect our Courts Act in 2020 after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped up courthouse arrests during Trump’s first term, a shift from ICE’s previous policy.
The law immunizes any person from warrantless civil arrests when attending a court proceeding in which they or a family member is a party or witness. Those protections extend to when the person travels to and from the courthouse, and violations can carry criminal and civil penalties.
D’Agostino’s ruling upholds the law and two executive orders signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), which restrict state employees’ ability to disclose information to ICE and prohibit immigration arrests in state facilities without a warrant.
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Undue federal interference?!
Enforcing federal law?!
Ok judge - epa enforcement is now null and void as are all other federal regulations.
Appointed by Obama.
“The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808,...”
The “judge’s” ruling sounds eerily familiar. Oh yeah, same argument put forth by State’s Rights secessionists pre-Civil War.
Literally just go in and arrest them, no state police will dare interfere with federal police
Yeah that’s hilarious!
Maybe she’s been reading John C. Calhoun?!
This one is getting overturned. That is a silly ruling that turns preemption on its head.
When it come to immigration State have no power. The constitution leaves that to the federal government.
Clinton and JoeBama packed the courts with activist judges
That’s what the current DOJ has to deal with every day
Well, yeah. Numerous courts in the last twenty years have ruled that federal law trumps state law immigration. Feds arresting non-citizens wherever they may be is part of that.
Immigration is federal, stupid judge.
Law, schmaw. Laws are for blocking Trump. Democrat judges follow their concerns.
And if they do, arrest them too
Unless a state tries to enforce immigration law
Then Obama v AZ kicks in I guess
Appeal.
Amazing how John C. Calhoun now invokes states’ rights to protect illegal immigrants.
So much for the Supremacy Clause.
This judge is really stupid and apparently never heard of the supremecy clause of the Constitution. Just another corrupt Leftist judge.
Exactly right.
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