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Judge blocks Trump administration from arresting immigrants at courts
CBS News • • nation
Key Points:
- A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction against Trump-era immigration policies, including arrests at immigration courts and removing the cap on detention time for immigration detainees.
- Judge P. Casey Pitts ruled these policies arbitrary and in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, criticizing ICE and immigration authorities for failing to provide reasoned explanations for their actions.
- The policy allowing arrests at immigration courts, which sparked community backlash due to confrontations and trauma, was deemed based on a false premise and lacking rational justification.
- The detention waiver permitting ICE to hold detainees beyond 12 hours was struck down for violating detainees' Fifth Amendment rights and for ICE not considering alternative solutions to capacity issues.
- The decision has been criticized by DHS officials as judicial activism, while a similar ruling against courthouse arrests was made by a federal judge in New York last month.
