ICE agents attempt to take person into custody at Derby courthouse

DERBY — Immigrant rights activists are in the Derby courthouse, where they say ICE agents are trying to take a defendant into custody.

The defendant, Domar Shearer, was expected in court Thursday in connection with a Sept. 3 arrest in Ansonia.

But activists from Unidad Latina en Acción showed up at the courthouse after learning ICE agents had arrived to take custody of Shearer.

As of 1:25 p.m. the activists said Shearer was inside the public defender’s office trying to elude the agents.

The three men he identified as ICE agents were wearing plain clothes in the courthouse and declined to comment.

ULA Director John Lugo questioned whether the agents’ presence violated the recently passed TRUST Act, which limits local and state law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration officials.

“These people shouldn’t even be here,” Lugo said.

“We believe that court marshals and state police are violating the state law, the Connecticut TRUST Act,” said Lugo.

"We have asked the Connecticut Judicial Branch to keep ICE out of our courthouses, but instead they are collaborating with ICE to interrupt the administration of justice in our state."

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