"They want immigrants to be afraid to show up to the court so that the government can more easily fast-track deportations against them."

Trump’s deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem played good cop / bad cop in a tense summit last week.

Immigrant-rights advocates rallied Wednesday to voice deep concerns about the recent arrests of asylum seekers by federal officers at Bay Area courthouses. Standing outside of the San Francisco immigration courthouse on the corner of Montgomery and Sutter streets,

Gov. Maura Healey slammed officials at U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Wednesday after the agency helped arrest around 40 people on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket who are accused of

"It was very disturbing, needless to say, to wake up to that news about that activity on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket," Gov. Maura Healey said.

Most were arrested after being stopped by Florida Highway Patrol for minor traffic violations. Some ended up in ICE custody.

A bail hearing is scheduled Wednesday for Kseniia Petrova, the 30-year-old Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since February.

Federal agents have arrested more than 100 people in Hawaii so far this year for alleged violations of immigration law, but information on exactly how many over 100, where they were arrested and for what was not made public.

Ximena Arias-Cristobal was released from Stewart Detention Center on Thursday night on bond, with an immigration case still ongoing.