Federal Judge Blocks Trump Policy of Making Arrests at Immigration Courts Nationwide
Judge P. Casey Pitts said the policy lacked reasoned explanation and chilled court attendance, restoring earlier limits on courthouse arrests and detention.
- 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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ReportWireJudge bars ICE from arrests at immigration courts
A federal judge in California has barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting immigrants at immigration courts, ruling that the agency failed to adequately justify a major policy change that expanded courthouse enforcement. In his order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated ICE policies that removed prior restrictions on civil immigration arrests at immigration courthouses. Pitts said that ICE failed to explain…
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Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration From Detaining Migrants at Immigration Hearings
A federal judge ruled that policies adopted by the administration allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to arrest migrants attending immigration hearings were unlawful.
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