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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts police do not have the authority to detain illegal immigrants solely to buy time for federal law enforcement officials to take them into custody, the state's top court ruled on Monday.

The decision amounts to a rejection of requests by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for courts and law enforcement agencies to hold illegal immigrants, who are facing civil deportation orders, in custody for up to 48 hours after their cases are resolved.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that doing so amounts to a fresh arrest of the person that is not authorized by state law, in the first such ruling to apply to an entire state, according to Massachusetts' attorney general.

"Massachusetts law provides no authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer, beyond the time that the individual would otherwise be entitled to be released from State custody," the court wrote in its decision.

The case focused on Sreynuon Lunn from Cambodia. Federal officials said he entered the United States as a refugee in 1985 and was ordered deported to Cambodia in 2008 after a series of criminal convictions. Cambodia declined to accept him and he was released.

Lunn was arrested in Boston last year on an unarmed robbery charge and ordered released in February after prosecutors failed to present a case.

Federal ICE officials took him into custody while he remained in his holding cell, an event that made his case moot. The court agreed to hear the case on the premise that the issue would come up again.

The U.S. Justice Department had argued that the 48-hour detainer requests reflected basic practices of cooperation between various law enforcement agencies.

Attorneys for Lunn and the state had largely agreed that Massachusetts lacked the authority.

"This decision allows local law enforcement to focus their resources on keeping people safe," said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, in a statement.

U.S. President Donald Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a top priority of his administration.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts praised the decision.

"At a timewhen the Trump administrationis pushing aggressive and discriminatory immigration enforcement policies, Massachusetts is leading nationwide efforts by limiting how state and local lawenforcement assist," the group's executive director, Carol Rose, said in a statement.

ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by David Gregorio and Phil Berlowitz

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A 20-year-old man accused of torching a North Carolina apartment building that left 130 people homeless last week was in the U.S. illegally, the sheriff's office told theCharlotte Observer.

Jesus Reyes Lopez, who was arrested Thursday in connection with the fire at the Woodscape Apartments, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and is wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the paper reported.

He will likely be deported no matter the outcome of his arson and attempted murder case, according to the paper.

Police say 40 apartments were damaged as a result of the fire Monday, leaving the 130 residents without a place to live.

Sources told a local TV news outlet that Lopez set the fire as an act of revenge against an ex-girlfriend and the fire got out of control, the Observer reported.

The Red Cross was working to find new homes for the displaced residents.

Seven people were hospitalized trying to escape the fire.

Residents reportedpeople dropping children from the third floor of the building because the stairwell was on fire, blocking their escape, Fox 46 Charlotte reported.

Lopez was jailed on a $1 million bail.

Authorities checked his immigration status when he was booked into the jail, the Observer reported.

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An illegal immigrant has been arrested in Geneseo, New York for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl, according to local news reports.

Fernando Alvarado-Perez, a 37-year-old male, allegedly had sex with the girlmultiple times while she was between 12- and 13-years-old, Livingston County News reports.

Alvarado-Perez told officers that he came to the United States illegally about 10 years ago.

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly issued an immigration detainer on Alvarado-Perez.

He is being charged with, rape, criminal sexual act, and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, WHEC.com reports.

The Genessee Sun also reports that he had sex with the girl while in front of a baby.

This news comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Donald Trump has increased arrests of illegal immigrants by 43 percent, with ICE arresting 13,914 people in June alone. (RELATED:Texas AG: Trump Has Done More To Stop Illegal Immigration Than Anyone In World History)

Republican Lindsay Graham also recently made headlines for working on a news proposal to keep illegal immigrants in the country, saying that those who dont support DREAMers shouldnt vote for him.

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So were at least all in agreement that the steep decline in illegal alien border crossings from Mexico since Trump took office is a good thing, right? Dont be silly. There is no argument, debate or policy point put forward by conservatives where you cant find at least some liberals willing to kvetch over it and illegal immigration is no exception. Out in California, farmers growing fruits and vegetables are increasingly upset at the prospect of having to either upgrade to robotic technology or offer higher wages and benefits to get their crops picked. The story begins with a discussion of AgroBot, a contraption in use at Driscolls farms which picks strawberries.(LA Times)

AgroBot is still more John Deere than C-3PO a boxy contraption moving in fits and starts, with its computer-driven sensors, graspers and cutters missing 1 in 3 berries.

Such has been the progress of ag-tech in California, where despite the adoption of drones, iPhone apps and satellite-driven sensors, the hand and knife still harvest the bulk of more than 200 crops.

Heres a refreshing twist to the story which ICE might want to look into. The LA Times has actually found an executive at a company that supplies labor to agricultural interests who is willing to come out on the record and admit that the industry has been knowingly hiring illegal aliens and participating in a scheme involving forged documents. (Emphasis added)

Weve been masking this problem all these years with a system that basically allowed you to accept fraudulent documents as legal, and thats what has been keeping this workforce going, said Steve Scaroni, whose Fresh Harvest company is among the biggest recruiters of farm labor. And now we find out we dont have much of a labor force up here, at least a legal one.

Stated bluntly, there arent enough new immigrants for the states nearly half-million farm labor jobs especially as Mexico creates competing manufacturing jobs in its own cities, Taylor said. He has calculated that the pool of potential immigrants from rural Mexico shrinks every year by about 150,000 people.

Youll notice how the LA Times once again chooses to disingenuously use the phrase, there arent enough new immigrants when what they actually mean is that there arent enough illegal aliens. In a number of columns here over the years I have repeatedly stated that one surefire way to reduce the number of illegal aliens coming to the country would be to divert some resources away from arresting the actual workers and begin prosecuting the CEOs of the major companies who employ or recruit them. As soon as that happened the jobs would dry up overnight and the incentive to cross the border would be vastly diminished.

Now youve got a potential candidate for this bold plan, or at least somebody who probably knows enough to bring down the perpetrators. Steve Scaroni is one of the principals of SFC, the Scaroni Family of Companies. They employ more than 3,000 workers in that region and right on their front page they brag about their participation in the H-2A guest worker program. But it certainly sounds from this interview like Steve is aware that either he or his competitors are accepting fraudulent documents as legal in their organizations. Perhaps ICE would like to have a chat with him.

So what are the farmers to do if the supply of illegal aliens is drying up? The robots theyve developed for picking more fragile crops arent up to speed yet, but they are better than they used to be. Necessity is the mother of invention, and that progress would continue if the demand is there. And as the Times article notes, other competitors are already offering higher wages and even health care and other benefits to attract workers. Believe me if you offer a good enough deal you will find citizens willing to do the work. Combing better compensation packages with improved technology to make the work less onerous would eventually solve the problem in a free labor market. Does that mean that well be paying a bit more for a salad? Maybe. But thats how the market works.

Progress is being made in fighting illegal immigration. The agricultural industry is simply going to need to keep up with the times and adapt.

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