New York, United States.
The Immigration and Customs Services of United States (ICE) will no longer be able to stop undocumented in the courts of New York nor in its vicinity, one demand that for years raised the defense organizations of this group.
The governor, Andrew Cuomo, printed this Tuesday its signature to validate the Law “Protecting Our Courts”, which protects the undocumented before the federal immigration authorities when I have to go to the local or state courts.
The new law “guarantees that New Yorkers they can freely access the justice system without the issue of becoming the target of thes federal immigration authorities“, says a statement from the state government office released on Tuesday.
The brief emphasizes that the usual practice of ICE CREAM of detain immigrants in the immediate ones of the courts of the city “the deterrent to appear before the courts of New York and prevented an administrationn fair of justice “.
Victory for immigrants
“Unlike the federal government, New York It has always protected our communities from immigrants, “he said Cuomo cited in the note, in which he insisted that “this legislation guarantees all New Yorkers that they can go to court without fear of being unfairly approached por ICE or other authority of federal immigration “.
The statement states that this law does not prevent that an undocumented be detained by court order, although federal security forces may not execute an administrative arrest warrant issued by a immigration courton.
For the association “Make your way”, which defends the rights of the immigrant and undocumented community, this law is a “historic milestone.”
“It is a victory for the New Yorkers immigrants. Now that the draft Protecting Our Courts has become law, it is coming to an end presence of ICE and their abusive tactics that intimidated and prevented them immigrants you would have equal access to the courts, “said the NGO’s co-director, Javier Valdés, in a brief note.
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For Valdés, this law is “crucial for the protection of thes undocumented “ and to “defend the immigrants against the deportation machine of the Administration (of the President Donald) Trump “.
Between 2016 and 2018 the operations of ICE CREAM increased from 11 to 202 the number of documented detainees around the courts, an increase of 1,700 percent, as reported in October the digital medial Documented.
In 2019, 127 people were arrested outside court buildings, mostly in the counties of Brooklyn and Queens. EFE