Role at the time: Immigrant-rights advocate and former Meriden city councilman
Condemned
Response to this claim
The man ICE arrested at the Meriden courthouse had been in court for a motor-vehicle violation and was targeted through racial profiling.
“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”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Viewer video allegedly shows ICE agents entering Meriden courthouse to make arrestParagraphs quoting Miguel Castro and the Meriden mayor's office
Why we used this label
Castro directly criticizes the marshals' cooperation with ICE as concerning, an express criticism of that conduct.
ICE agents arrested a man inside a Meriden, Connecticut, courthouse while activists demanded to know why masked agents were violating the TRUST Act. State officials called it improper; ICE called the arrest appropriate and said marshals impeded it.
