Soon-to-Be-Deported Activist Wins ‘Freedom to Say Goodbye’
Immigration activist Ravi Ragbir, center, listens during a rally after a check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York, U.S., on March 9, 2017.
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A Manhattan federal judge didn’t mince words in slamming the Trump administration’s handling of an immigration activist’s arrest for deportation as resembling the actions of "regimes we revile as unjust."
"We are not that country; and woe be the day that we become that country under a fiction that laws allow it," U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest wrote in an opinion Monday in releasing Ravi Ragbir so he can get his affairs in order and say goodbye to his family before being deported to Trinidad & Tobago.