Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax that while immigration detainees and protesters have constitutional rights, there is a clear legal line that cannot be crossed: threatening federal agents is a crime.
The issue comes amid growing clashes around ICE enforcement and immigration policy in the US. Dershowitz argued that states and local officials cannot interfere with federal immigration enforcement, even if they disagree politically with the policy. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, and federal officers carrying out lawful duties must be protected.
This is the part many on the left refuse to accept. They may protest. They may criticize. They may go to court. But they do not have the right to intimidate, obstruct or threaten federal agents because they dislike President Trump’s immigration policy.
Dershowitz also criticized newly signed New York legislation limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE, calling it unconstitutional.