[ April 19, 2024 ]
Judicial tyranny. Power without law.
Activist judge declares all Massachusetts courthouses ICE-free zones.
All courthouses in Massachusetts have become ICE-free zones because a zealous left-wing Obama judge took it upon herself to forbid immigration officers from detaining suspected illegal aliens on judicial soil.
By: Matthew Vadum, June 26, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementThis lawless order is reportedly the first judicial fiat in the United States to block immigration arrests across an entire state, according to The Epoch Times. Massachusetts happens to be the home of state Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, who was charged earlier this year under federal law for helping an illegal alien evade an ICE agent in her courthouse.
Although police have been arresting suspects in courthouses ever since courthouses were invented –it is a great deal safer for police than raiding a factory or a home— labor lawyer Indira Talwani, now a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, granted a preliminary injunction barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “from civilly arresting parties, witnesses, and others attending Massachusetts courthouses on official business while they are going to, attending, or leaving the courthouse.” The order specifies that it “does not limit ICE’s criminal arrests of such individuals or its civil arrests of individuals who are brought to Massachusetts courthouses while in state or federal custody.”
President Barack Hussein Obama nominated Talwani Sept. 24, 2013. The U.S. Senate confirmed Talwani on May 8, 2014.
The injunction dated June 20 came in the case of Ryan v. ICE, a lawsuit brought by two left-wing prosecutors: Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan (D) and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins (D). Ryan has described herself as a “proven progressive prosecutor.” Rollins released a 65-page memo laying out her vision of “progressive prosecution,” which involves not prosecuting accused criminals.
Ryan and Rollins hit the jackpot when a friendly fellow radical, former AFL-CIO lawyer Indira Talwani, got assigned the case. Ryan, by the way, lauded the judge’s ruling, saying, “The granting of this injunction is a critical step in the right direction for our Commonwealth and it should be a model for our nation.”
President Trump reportedly called into “The Adriana Cohen Show” in Boston in May to blast Ryan and Rollins for their lawsuit.
“These are people that probably don’t mind crime, they don’t mind what’s going on,” Trump said. “You look at MS-13, they say in the world there’s nothing more evil. These are some very, very bad people. To try and protect them, I don’t think so.”
Trump singled out Rollins for criticism after she said “it would be my honor” to be arrested for assisting illegal aliens escape from ICE officials.
“What they’ve done to young girls, what they’ve done to women, what they’ve done to others, is just horrible,” Trump said of MS-13. “So for her to be saying that—she’s got to live with it, she’s got to live with her own conscience.”
Meanwhile, the left-leaning South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA) speaks of Judge Talwani in glowing terms, describing her as “a tireless advocate on behalf of the underserved” who “understands the value of labor relations.” It adds, “the Chinese Progressive Association awarded her the Workers Justice Award” in 2012.
Ryan and Rollins sued claiming, fancifully, that there exists “a common law privilege against civil arrest in courthouses.” They also argued that allowing ICE to arrest illegals in courthouses makes their jobs more difficult because it discourages illegals from making court appearances.
Talwani bought this nonsense and issued the temporary restraining order preventing the men and women of ICE from doing their jobs in Massachusetts.
This was not the first time the judge’s animus to immigration law enforcement showed.
As the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reported:
Specifically, Law360 reported that on April 25, 2018, Judge Talwani complained to a federal prosecutor that he “should have stopped” plain-clothes ICE officers who were attending sentencing proceedings in the case of a Chinese national who had admitted to visa fraud. Those officers arrested the student as soon as she left the building after being sentenced to a year probation. The judge reportedly stated, in open court, “I am upset at the notion that ICE thinks a courtroom is a place to go and pick up people.” She further opined (again, apparently in open court): “I see no reason for places of redress and justice to become places that people are afraid to show up.”
The authors of the CIS article say this is proof that Talwani is violating judicial ethics.
The judge’s “own statements call into question her impartiality, and suggest that she may have already made up her mind on the issue of ICE courthouse arrests. Simply put, she is against them, as the statements above would appear to indicate.”
Citing an indictment, they note that in November 2017 “the Executive Office of the Massachusetts Trial Court issued guidance to all Massachusetts state judges, clerks, and other courthouse personnel,” which stipulated that “DHS officials may enter a courthouse to perform their official duties.” (The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is ICE’s parent agency.)
Why Talwani, a federal judge, thinks she has authority over state judicial officials is a good question.
Why she thinks the reach of U.S. immigration law ends on the courthouse steps is an even better question.
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23 Comments
4 years ago
Send in Federal Marshall’s to arrest her.
Enforce our laws.
4 years ago
Reply to
WolfNippleChips
Agree. Left/Liberals are supporters of illegals/criminals.
And the first Muslim democrat/socialist gay president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America
http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
4 years ago
If there’s a better case for impeachment of a judge I’ve never seen it…
4 years ago
the muslim nominated her, but mitch mcconnell and the deep state repub senate approved her 94-0. you may ask, why bother voting?
4 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
I dont understand why Pres. Trump appointed his Chinese wife to transportation portfolio!!?
4 years ago
Reply to
cassandra
my guess is that mitch required it as a quid pro quo for something else
4 years ago
Is she a federal judge? If so why doesn’t Trump just fire her. Clinton fired 93 judges at once in 90’s
4 years ago
Reply to
Abby
Those were District Attorneys, not Judges and Trump was foolish not to do the same.
4 years ago
Instead of calling in to talk radio talk shows, Trump should have sent the military to completely seal off that court house and not allow that filthy judge to break the law one more day.
“Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins (D). Ryan has described herself as a “proven progressive prosecutor.” Rollins released a 65-page memo laying out her vision of “progressive prosecution,” which involves not prosecuting accused criminals.” There it is. The Plan of the leftists, laid out in the open. They are now in high gear working to tear this country down. Something better be done about this. And soon.
4 years ago
If she makes up laws, then arrest her.
4 years ago
This is what happens when you import people who do not truly intend to integrate in a country but intend to subvert it. UK prime example.
4 years ago
a judge that shields criminals from law enforcement in her court room…..what country am i living in?
4 years ago
A MASSIVE USSC anvil should be swinging down HARD on this insane, “progressive” degenerate
The obvious silver lining of this rampant, left wing lunacy (A year+ before 2020 elections), is that sane America (including conservative Democrats AND closet conservatives!, there are quite a few of those I suspect, if you consider the ‘Spiral Of Fear’ affect), is waking up and moving slow but steady and in growing numbers, to the right!!
If Democrats go on with their bat s#it crazy antics, Trump will (metaphorically) clobber them into bloody pulp come 2020
Hopefully the GOP takes the house back from these insane Democratic morons
4 years ago
4 years ago
Bathhouse Barry is now running the USA via his Soros sponsored proxy army, aka the US justice system and the Islamic Death Cult. When do you suppose the RINO infested Republican Party will ever rise to the occasion and arrest this whole anti-American crew?
4 years ago
Massachusetts is pretty much a sanctuary state. Boston and several cities are sanctuary cities, Boston mayor Maahty Walsh has stated that illegals are welcome to sleep/stay in City Hall to avoid ICE/deportations. Repub Governor Charlie Baker is nothing but a RINO, more please at his supposed standing as the nation’s most popular governor than actually trying to enforce state laws. He is an impotent puppet of the democrat lawmakers of the state’s majority. We are California, on a smaller scale…..
4 years ago
What you get for obeying people when you should be obeying what your Constitution says. After all, it is the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND!
Not stupid leftist deluded brainwashed people of the obammy kind.
4 years ago
Obama like Obama.
4 years ago
Oh please.
4 years ago
ICE and other federal enforcement should ignore her order and see if it is actually enforced.If an attempt tis made to enforce it, I am confident it will be overruled. The concept is ridiculous and has no precedent whatsoever. It merely indicates the extent to which toi ideologues appointed by Obama will go to create laws out of corn silk.
4 years ago
Why do people not cogitate and conclude that if O was a Marxist Hyena that he would put Marxist Predators like himself in power across this nation’s courts. What is it that scares Americans, that the Democrat/Leftist/Marxist Predators snarl and growl and show their fangs and claws and expect these Predators not do savaging to Americans.
