US EditionJudge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown: Report
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered the release of hundreds detained in the Chicago-area immigration crackdown, siding with attorneys from the National Immigrant Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Cummings found that the violations stemmed from a 2022 consent decree that limits warrantless arrests and requires pre-arrest documentation and probable-cause checks in the six-state consent-decree region.
- Attorneys say about 3,300 people were arrested since June, including Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, a daycare teacher seized shortly after 7 a.m. at Rayito de Sol daycare during Operation Midway Blitz.
- The judge also paused deportations and set a Nov. 21 deadline for the Department of Justice to grant bond to eligible detainees and submit expanded arrest lists by ICE and Border Patrol.
- The judge said people without criminal histories or prior removal orders can be released on a $1,500 bond, with ICE producing risk assessments for 403 of 615 detainees, labeling 313 low risk and 12 high risk.
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Fox NewsJudge who ordered release of 600 Chicago illegal immigrants slammed by DHS as activist putting lives at risk
US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled that more than 600 detainees being held at the Broadview ICE center must be released "on bond and into ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program" by Nov. 21, citing what he called a "pattern of unlawful arrests and confinement."
DHS Slams Federal Judge Who Released 600 Illegal Aliens Detained in Anti-Crime Sweep
A dramatic intervention by the federal judiciary is forcing the immediate release of over 600 illegal immigrants from detention in Chicago, overriding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to curb a serious crisis of lawlessness. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered DHS to free the detainees held at the Broadview facility, citing “repeated, material violations” of a previous court agreement. The order applies to individuals…
Judge Rebukes DHS, Orders Release of Dozens of Illegals
A federal judge in Chicago sharply criticized the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics Thursday, ordering the release of dozens of detainees after finding that Department of Homeland Security officials repeatedly violated a binding consent decree during a major arrest operation this year. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, issued the order in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Immigration and Customs Enf…
Judge orders ICE to release over 300 detainees next week, arrested during Operation Midway Blitz
The Trump administration launched the operation in September in honor of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run allegedly caused by an illegal migrant from Guatemala.
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