US EditionJudge 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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In September, the Trump administration launched an operation of the Federal Immigration Police (ICE), called "Midway blitz", targeting, according to it, "criminal illegal immigrants who terrorize the Americans" in Illinois (north of the country) and its main city Chicago...
A federal judge ordered the release of more than 300 people detained in immigration operations carried out by the Government in the Chicago area, after finding that the arrests made during the so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” violated a valid judicial agreement prohibiting arrests without a court order.
While the Trump administration boasts a decline in crime in Chicago as a consequence of its raids by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE), justice challenges the legality of these arrests, judging them without reasonable reason or warrant.
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…
A U.S. federal judge ordered the bail of hundreds of people arrested by immigration police since September in Illinois, particularly in the Chicago area.
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