Denver (KDVR) – Civil Rights Group in Colorado The accusation of the Denver Immigration Court of using tactics To try to keep lawyers, legal observers and members of the public outside the courtroom.
Specifically, the US Civil Liberties Union in Colorado says that the Denver Immigration Court is trying to obstruct immigration procedures, intimidate and restrict them in another way. The group said that the tactics are likely to violate the first amendment, federal law and executive office of immigration review policies.
“The cases that were heard in the Immigration Court are deeply declining to the affected families and the general public. Every day, rulers decide whether or not the families will be separated, or they send people to a detention system that does not increase legally, or they effectively regret people to countries that do not have a memory.” “This strong court should not work in the shade.”
The court says on its website that the immigration court listening sessions are open to the public, “with limited exceptions, as is specified in the law.”
“In the past few weeks, we have received confirmed reports on the following blockage tactics in the court,” the American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado confirmed in its mission. Non -profit organizations say that the court has:
- Legal monitors handcuffed and detention without justification
- Denial of legal observers of entering the court without explanation
- Preventing lawyers from advising people who are going through legal procedures in court
- Lawyers who are interrogated about their relationships with specific people and told them that they could not provide advice within the court
- Legal observers prevented notes on their own paper regarding the graphics that are publicly published in the corridors
- “Silent” legal observers in the hallway or corridors, despite allowing a quiet conversation and not available for years
- Prohibition of legal observers from entering the courtrooms, claiming because of “space restrictions” when there are clearly empty seats in the courtroom
- Observers and lawyers told that they should sit for the entire post or completely exclude them from the procedures, “although there is no state or federal court in Colorado from the public or lawyers from the choice between those present for the entire list or to prevent it from the General Court hall completely; quiet and unexpected entry and departure that allows routinely.”
The US Civil Liberties Union said that security officers confirmed that long seats in the corridors were removed in response to the presence of legal observers.
Tim McDonald, Director of Colorado Law, said in a statement on Thursday: “He undermines the confidence of the public in our immigration courts and encourages the Trump administration to continue its reckless agenda to combat immigration.”
The letter continues to tell the head of the immigration judge, Matthew W. Kaufman, that the courts that remain open and available to the public are a long right within the framework of the first amendment.
“With regard to the restrictions imposed on the lawyer’s speech, in places such as the Immigration Court in Denver, the government may only impose restrictions on speech. Violation of the first amendment. “
The non -profit organization said that the lawyers speak to their clients and the non -representative parties in the courtroom, corridors and courtrooms outside the session on their rights, and the procedures are not hindered.
The American Civil Liberties Union wrote in a statement discussing the letter: “The last immigration enforcement activity, which sometimes includes illegal behavior by federal agents, makes the immigration court procedures of increasing attention to the public.”
The American Civil Liberties Union said: “Simply”: Democrats die behind closed doors, “a partial transfer of a lawsuit filed by the Detroit Frie Press in its mission to the Denver Migration Court.
The executive office of the US Department of Justice to review immigration refused to comment.