ICE Will No Longer Arrest Immigrants At Courthouses Unless There’s A Public Safety Threat

In 2019, a New York prosecutor set to take a burglary case to a grand jury needed the testimony of an undocumented immigrant to secure the indictment. The victim of the alleged burglary wondered: Would being undocumented affect the investigation?

The Queens County prosecutor, Gee Won Cha, assured her that her immigration status would play no role in the prosecution’s case. The prosecutor sought justice on behalf of all people, regardless of whether they were US citizens.

“However, these reassurances failed to put the witness at ease,” Cha wrote in...