ICE agents scatter as SD Bishop Pham, other clergy visit immigration court [View all]
Eight immigration courts line the fourth-floor hallway of the downtown Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building. On the walls: boot prints of ICE agents.
But on World Refugee Day, masked immigration agents weren’t leaning against the off-white walls, waiting to grab people. They scattered Friday after seeing a clergy delegation led by Bishop-elect Michael Pham.
“Like the story of Moses and Exodus, the Red Sea parted,” said observer Scott Reid of the immigrant-aiding San Diego Organizing Project.
Said another observer: “We’ve never seen the hallways cleared out so quickly.”
The result: Nobody was detained as immigration lawyers said would happen.
Two cases were heard Friday morning by Judge Catherine “Cate” Halliday-Roberts — a man whose case was continued and a woman whose case had been administratively closed for 20 years and reopened by the government.
Her case also was continued.
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