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Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown: Report

Judge Cummings found warrantless arrests violated a 2022 consent decree, ordering bond eligibility for over 600 migrants detained in the Chicago-area Operation Midway Blitz.

  • 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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Chicago, United States.- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release on bail of hundreds of undocumented migrants arrested in Chicago during the Trump administration's immigration offensive, in a new setback for the Republican in the third largest city of the United States. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered the release of detainees who are not considered a security risk in the country, while awaiting the outcome of their immigration p…

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of hundreds of people who were arrested in Illinois as part of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, in what would be a severe blow to his administration’s efforts to arrest and deport as many undocumented people as possible. “All this, all the tactics of (the senior Border Patrol official Gregory) Bovino, all ICE tactics have been illegal in the vast, vast majority of arrests,” said Mark Fleming,…

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