Castro calls it "even more concerning" that marshals are "cooperating with and interacting and sharing information with ice agents"
Immigrant-rights advocate and former Meriden city councilman
“Public safety should be one of our priorities to make sure members of our community can actually perform all of their duties and obligations in a safe environment. But even more concerning that judicial Marshalls are actually cooperating with and interacting and sharing information with ice agents”
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Reporting
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Reports the Meriden mayor's office statement that it was not notified of the operation, and Miguel Castro's on-record account of the confrontation.
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Reports Miguel Castro's Facebook post describing the arrest as racial profiling, and reproduces the Connecticut Judicial Branch's full statement to WFSB.
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Castro, who was recording the confrontation, said advocates gathered outside the courthouse after learning ICE agents were nearby.
After the quotation
Castro separately wrote on Facebook that the man ICE arrested had been in court for a motor-vehicle violation and was targeted through racial profiling.
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Responding to: The man ICE arrested at the Meriden courthouse had been in court for a motor-vehicle violation and was targeted through racial profiling.
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Why this label?
Castro directly criticizes the marshals' cooperation with ICE as concerning, an express criticism of that conduct.
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- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Connecticut Judicial Branch
Did ICE's conduct at the Meriden, Connecticut, courthouse violate the state's TRUST Act?
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“When federal agents barged into the state courthouse in Meriden, they did not just abduct another community member, they fundamentally challenged the legitimacy of our state government. Marshals opened the doors wide for ICE while pushing the citizens out of their own courthouse. ICE went so far as to pepper spray bystanders and a marshal assaulted another, causing one to be taken from the court by ambulance to the ER. This is an unforgivable act of collaboration, for which we demand justice.”Read statement
“The agency operating ICE inherently understands that some of what they’re doing is shameful, and that’s why they don’t want to be identified. It’s an extraordinary thing for people engaged in law enforcement to think they have to remain anonymous. It means that they don’t have confidence in the morality of their own mission. FBI agents do not wear masks. ATF agents — they don’t wear masks, either. Federal marshals who protect courthouses — they don’t wear masks.”Read statement
“If you look at the law that we passed, adherence to that law is going to avoid the type of situations that we’ve seen that put not only officers in harm’s way but also people they’re trying to apprehend. Storming courthouses or hospitals or schools is not going to make people safer, and I don’t think it’s a good outcome for law enforcement, either. ... It puts our law enforcement in a tough spot. I think it puts the federal officers in a tough spot. We should not have people going into those types of places. They are very sensitive and have long been considered sensitive sites.”Read statement