Canadian-Born Dentist Freed After Judge Rules ICE Detention Lacked Legal Basis

Canadian-born dentist freed after judge rules ICE detention lacked legal basis

A Canadian-born dentist is now home in Minnesota after a judge found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no legal justification for keeping him in custody.

Why did a federal judge order ICE to release a Minnesota dentist?

ICE arrested him over a dismissed 2012 charge

Judge blasts ICE over 'appalling' arrest of dentist

A federal judge ordered ICE to free a Canadian dentist and young father, calling the circumstances of his detention “appalling.”

Judge blasts ICE's 'hubris' in scathing order demanding dentist's release: 'Abhorrent'

A federal judge took the Trump administration's immigration apparatus to task in an emergency order filed Sunday demanding the release of a detained dentist. Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a dentist from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, identified in his habeas corpus petition only as "William L." The arrest was based on "faulty" paperwork provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that claimed the de…