• May Day rally targets surge in detentions at US courthouses • Activists say undocumented people now fear to enter courts The Milwaukee rally of Voces de la Frontera. Photograph: Voces de la Frontera/Facebook Courthouses are ostensibly sanctuaries of justice, but immigrant rights advocates say undocumented people now fear to enter them lest they end up deported. An apparent surge of detentions last year and early this year at courthouses around the country has fed a perception that turning up for any reason – to testify, pay a fine or just accompany a relative – can end in shackles and deportation. Activists in Wisconsin amended the route of the traditional May Day march on Thursday to end...
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