Reposted by @belsheart.bsky.social
My dear friend and colleague Comptroller Brad Lander was just violently detained by masked ICE officers while escorting folks out of immigration court. This is disgusting and horrific. He must be released immediately.
![The United States Government took neither tack. Rather, what followed in the ensuing
days was increasing obstructionism on the part of the Government as it refused to answer basic
questions about what had happened, questions that were all ultimately in service of resolving one
key fact: whether members of the Plaintiff class — that is, noncitizens removable solely on the
basis of the Proclamation — were transferred out of U.S. custody after this Court's injunction
preventing their deportation.
Such stonewalling started before the Monday hearing. Just before it was set to begin, Defendants sought to cancel it as an unnecessary "incursion] on Executive Branch authority." Mot. to Vacate Mar. 17 Hrg. at 1. Nowhere in their filing did they dispute that class members
were transferred into Salvadoran custody hours after the injunction issued. Instead, Defendants](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreiet3r67suruudyvnmjd5cbdodeixfy44z4nnat4bssmg5gfjhh4yi)
