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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Policy of Making Arrests at Immigration Courts Nationwide
Judge P. Casey Pitts said ICE’s courthouse-arrest policy chilled attendance at hearings and lacked a rational explanation, according to a 71-page ruling.
- On Tuesday, District Judge P. Casey Pitts issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump administration policies that allowed arrests at immigration courts, ending a practice that drew national scrutiny.
- ICE began detaining migrants in courthouse hallways last year, a practice Pitts found 'arbitrary and capricious' because the agency failed to provide rational explanation for removing previous civil enforcement limits.
- The ruling struck down a detention waiver allowing ICE to hold detainees for more than 12 hours, as Pitts wrote the practice violated Fifth Amendment rights through 'punitive conditions of confinement.'
- Jordan Wells, senior staff attorney at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Fransico Bay Area, applauded the ruling, while DHS General Counsel James Percival called it 'naked judicial activism.'
- The decision follows a similar ruling last month in New York, where District Judge P. Kevin Castel found the administration's withdrawal of courthouse enforcement limits similarly 'arbitrary and capricious.
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The decision stops a particularly controversial part of US President Donald Trump's deportation policy. ICE officials had repeatedly arrested migrants in the corridors of court buildings last year.
·Munich, Germany
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Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump
A judge has barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year.
·New York, United States
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