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Trump goons arrest one other politician, legal guidelines be damned

Editorial Board Published June 17, 2025
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers on Tuesday arrested New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander, who can also be a Democratic mayoral candidate. Lander’s arrest is the most recent in a string of Trump administration assaults on elected officers, however seems to be the primary arrest carried out by ICE brokers. Certain, ICE doesn’t have the authority to arrest U.S. residents, however an administration that already illegally deployed troops in Los Angeles and is letting them illegally arrest folks doesn’t care about such niceties. 

Lander’s alleged offense seems to be accompanying an immigrant who was leaving immigration courtroom and asking ICE brokers to supply their judicial warrant. Doing so now permits ICE to spring into motion and arrest Lander, a citizen, for obstructing their arrest of a migrant they are saying is topic to elimination. Nevertheless it isn’t in any respect evident that ICE brokers have the authority to arrest residents, even when they actually, actually need to. 


New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested after asking immigration brokers to offer a judicial warrant for a person they had been making an attempt to detain.

ICE has broad authority to detain and arrest undocumented migrants who’re topic to elimination from the nation. DHS and immigration judges can situation administrative warrants, which don’t enable them to enter or search personal areas. These warrants can function the idea to arrest an undocumented particular person if they’re in public, nonetheless. However they aren’t the identical as judicial warrants, which require compliance from everybody and permit the search of personal places.

However as a way to hit the three,000 arrests per day demanded by Donald Trump adviser and ghoul-in-chief Stephen Miller, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE want some straightforward wins. With the assistance of immigration courts, the Division of Homeland Safety developed a very repugnant scheme to make this occur. 

DHS attorneys are dismissing pending immigration circumstances in opposition to individuals who present as much as courtroom for a scheduled look as required. The immigration choose agrees to the dismissal, leaving the migrant believing they’re free to go, however after they step outdoors the courtroom, they’re arrested by ICE brokers as a result of they now not have a pending immigration case and are due to this fact topic to elimination. 

The issue for ICE goons is that whereas this ruse permits them to detain an undocumented particular person, they don’t have any authority to arrest U.S. residents. Actually, when DHS companions with state and native police for immigration enforcement, even these officers are solely allowed to detain and interrogate suspected noncitizens. 

Which brings us again to Brad Lander, who was dragged away by masked ICE brokers when he tried to stroll out of the courthouse with an immigrant and requested that ICE produce a judicial warrant. ICE possible had an administrative warrant to detain the immigrant strolling with Lander, as a result of in the event that they had been a sufferer of the dismissal trick, they had been now topic to elimination. However that piece of paper holds no sway over Lander. 

Division of Homeland Safety flack Tricia McLaughlin introduced that Lander was arrested for assaulting regulation enforcement and impeding a federal officer. She additionally took the chance to trot out the drained lie that the true victims listed below are ICE brokers and that “if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences.”  

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McLaughlin’s assertion isn’t simply meant to unfold the lie that Lander was arrested as a result of he assaulted regulation enforcement personnel. It’s additionally meant to obscure who’s allowed to do the arresting. McLaughlin doesn’t discuss with ICE brokers, however as an alternative to “law enforcement” typically. 

It’s not like ICE brokers are clearly figuring out themselves as of late regardless. The individuals who arrested Lander included somebody carrying a tactical vest labeled solely with “federal agent,” folks in plainclothes carrying surgical masks, and somebody carrying a full face masks and tactical gear. These should not people who find themselves even inclined to correctly determine themselves and their company, a lot much less obey legal guidelines about who they will arrest. 

In fact, by now, it’s clear that Lander isn’t an outlier and his arrest is not only a single second of unwarranted escalation that gained’t occur once more. The Trump administration is now routinely determining methods to arrest elected officers for daring to oppose its immigration crackdown.  

In April, the FBI arrested Decide Hannah Dugan, a sitting Wisconsin state choose, for allegedly serving to an immigrant evade ICE whereas on the courthouse. On the time, that felt like probably the most outrageous factor that might occur, with FBI officers arresting her as she arrived for work on the courthouse. A minimum of FBI officers actually are allowed to arrest folks. 

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Solely two weeks later, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing at an ICE facility, though arrested by whom is a bit murky, as DHS blurred the faces of everybody manhandling Baraka. When Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Robert Menendez Jr. visited the ability within the wake of Baraka’s arrest as a part of their required congressional oversight duties, DHS Secretary Noem accused them of committing felonies. Former Trump private lawyer and present underqualified Interim U.S. Lawyer Alina Habba later indicted McIver for “assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering” with federal officers. 

So, to recap: ICE brokers who refuse to formally determine as ICE brokers at the moment are apparently arresting U.S. politicians who’re residents. Energetic-duty troops are apparently performing regulation enforcement duties in Los Angeles in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Politicians are being arrested or threatened with arrest for any resistance to the administration, even only for asking a query. It isn’t even all that essential which mixture of thugs the administration deploys to do that, as a result of it’s a wholesale assault on democracy it doesn’t matter what.

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