I am upset at the notion that ICE thinks a courtroom is a place to go and pick up people.
— U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, expressing her concern that a defendant appearing in her courtroom was detained by ICE agents. Xinyan Wang had just been sentenced to one year of probation for taking the GRE for another student when the agents detained her as opposed to allowing Wang to turn herself in as is customary in cases like this. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Tobin said he’s “never seen it in 30 years.”
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Judge Talwani’s also worried about the long-term implication of ICE agents using courtrooms as staging grounds for deportation, “I see no reason for places of redress and justice to become places that people are afraid to show up.”