The federal judge identified 210 orders issued in 143 cases in Minnesota in which he said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had not complied with court orders.

The chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement and then mischaracterizing the scope of their missteps.

The judge, Patrick Schiltz, threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt if the pattern continued, writing in a scathing order on Thursday that, “one way or another, ICE will comply with this court’s orders.”

“The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders,” wrote Judge Schiltz, who was nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush.

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    Threatening it and not doing it is arguably worse than the crime itself. You are an accomplice until you do your fucking duty.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we have to start protesting these judges for not doing anything. Feet to the fire. They’re on the right track, but nothing is still fucking nothing.

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    This is what failing to enforce their orders has wrought for the judicial branch. ICE will continue ignoring them until judges start ordering their bailiffs to take these scumbags straight to jail from the courtroom.

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    The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again

    Stop threatening and do it

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    The fuck it will. Until you grow a god damn spine and actually issue contempt charges (and have them enforced), ICE is going to continue to wipe their asses with your ‘orders’ and the US Constitution.

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    Reminder that Federal judges can deputize citizens to enforce their rulings. There were something like 80K park rangers that were fired from the National Park Service They already have most of the necessary training & certainly have more training than ICE goons.