US EditionJudge Issues Injunction Restricting Immigration Arrests in Nation’s Capital
Judge Beryl Howell blocked warrantless immigration arrests in D.C. and mandated agents document probable cause before arrest, citing violations of immigration law and Department of Homeland Security rules.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a preliminary injunction halting widespread civil immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., responding to a lawsuit by civil liberties and immigrants-rights groups against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Plaintiffs argued the American Civil Liberties Union showed officers frequently patrolled Latino neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., while attorneys for the administration denied any policy authorizing warrantless arrests.
- U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered federal agents making civil immigration arrests to document particularized facts supporting warrantless pre-arrest probable cause and submit that to plaintiffs' attorneys, noting federal rules require warrants except under the Immigration and Nationality Act's flight-risk exception.
- The ruling echoes two similar federal decisions in Colorado and California involving the ACLU and follows a Los Angeles order later lifted by the Supreme Court in September.
- An email to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security late Tuesday was not immediately returned, while attorneys for the administration denied a policy permitting such arrests as the case joins other federal challenges in Colorado and California.
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A federal judge on Dec. 2 ordered the Trump admin to stop making warrantless immigration arrests in the DC without probable cause. The post Judge Restricts Immigration Arrests in Nation’s Capital appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
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