A judge ruled Friday that immigration officials can continue making federal courthouse arrests in New York City for now, siding with the Trump administration against immigrant rights groups that challenged the practice.

District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel said African Communities Together and The Door — two nonprofit organizations that provide services to immigrant New Yorkers — failed to prove that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s court arrest policy was unlawful or inconsistent with the agency’s past behavior.

In an August complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, the two groups wrote that, for decades, federal officials have generally avoided making civil arrests at courthouses as “such arrests chill access to the courts and impede the fair administration of j

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