Brad Lander: “It's come out now, almost a year later, that they never had…”

“So they had started a couple of weeks earlier, grabbing people who had showed up for their immigration court hearings just like they were supposed to, and arresting, detaining them completely, lawlessly. It's come out now, almost a year later, that they never had the authority for these arrests. Just like we were saying, a federal court judge, Judge Castell, ordered them to stop and noted that they never had that authority, but at the time there, they were doing it.” (04:13–04:20)

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