Public Defenders Walk Out Of Bronx Courthouse After College Student Detained By ICE – WNYC News – WNYC

 by Gwynne Hogan

About 75 public defenders walked out of Bronx Criminal Court Thursday afternoon in protest of the sudden detention of one of their clients following a routine court date.

The walk-out dramatized the ongoing dissatisfaction by immigrant advocates with federal agents, whose presence at the courthouses they say intimidates witnesses and victims from coming forward for fear of being deported.

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