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This court became a symbol of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now it’s at the center of a House race
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This court became a symbol of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now it’s at the center of a House race

The Seattle Times·ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE The Associated Press·18 days ago
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal immigration court in Lower Manhattan has come to represent the Trump administration’s deportation campaign in New York City, with agents carrying out chaotic and sometimes violent arrests in the hallway as migrants leave hearings. Now the court is serving as a front in a different kind of battle: one of the city’s most closely watched congressional races. In the Democratic primary between incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman and former city Comptroller Brad Lander — for a district so solidly blue that the June primary is considered its deciding election — both candidates have made the Trump administration’s treatment of migrants at 26 Federal Plaza a feature of their campaigns, but with decidedly different approaches. Goldman — an heir to the Levi Strauss denim fortune and former prosecutor who was lead counsel for President Donald Trump’s first impeachment — has approached the topic with a lawyerly bent that leverages the power of his office.…

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