Federal immigration agents arrested an immigrant as he was leaving court on the first day of his trial in Massachusetts on Thursday, with a judge now holding one agent in contempt for disrupting due process.

Plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at the court in Boston and took Wilson Martell-Lebron without prior notice, according to The Boston Globe.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Martell-Lebron was, in fact, Juan Carlos Baez, 49, a Dominican national in the U.S. illegally since 2000

    So even if you’re a legal non-Spanish person, they will give you a Spanish name and say you’re illegal

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      19 hours ago

      ICE told Newsweek

      You left this important part of the quote. And no where in the article does it provide any proof of that claim, for anyone wondering.