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ICE Arrests Three Men with Criminal Convictions at New York Immigration Courts
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained an Ecuadorian man, a Dominican man, and a Guatemalan man at Manhattan immigration courts over the past week. The arrests followed a May 18 federal court order limiting such actions.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men at immigration courts in New York City over the past week. On Thursday, agents took an Ecuadorian man into custody at 26 Federal Plaza and a Dominican man at 290 Broadway, both in Lower Manhattan.
On Monday, agents detained a Guatemalan man at 290 Broadway. The Intercept reported that the arrests appear to violate a May 18 order by Judge Kevin Castel requiring ICE to follow a 2021 policy. That policy permitted courthouse arrests only with prior authorization in cases involving national security threats or narrowly defined public safety threats.
A June 23 federal court ruling in California extended similar limits nationwide. From May 18 until last week, only two arrests occurred at Manhattan immigration courts, and both detainees were released after lawyers invoked the order. The three men arrested last week were transferred to detention centers.
The Dominican man is held at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey; the Ecuadorian man at the D. Ray James ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia; and the Guatemalan man at the Orange County Detention Facility in upstate New York. An ICE spokesperson told The Intercept that the Dominican man has a trespassing conviction and the Ecuadorian man has a 2025 disorderly conduct conviction.
The spokesperson denied any violation of court orders but did not specify how the arrests fit the exceptions. Rep. , said in a statement to The Intercept that ICE continues to flagrantly violate the law by arresting immigrants at mandatory court hearings.
Murad Awawdeh of the New York Immigration Coalition told The Intercept that ICE is operating in a lawless and rogue fashion. Benjamin Remy, senior coordinating attorney at the New York Legal Assistance Group, told The Intercept that the order is being disregarded and that detentions have increased.
