Judge vacates administrations policies, finding actions of ICE and another government arm ‘arbitrary and capricious’
A federal judge in California vacated the Trump administration’s nationwide policies expanding arrests at immigration courthouses and the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term facilities, finding the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and another government arm “arbitrary and capricious”.
US district judge P Casey Pitts of the northern district of California on Tuesday vacated ICE’s policies that had rescinded previous strictures on arrests at immigration courthouses and allowed detainees to be held in short-term cells for up to 72 hours. He did the same for a similar policy undertaken by the US Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review that removed limits on courthouse arrests.
The 71-page ruling, issued in a case brought by an asylum seeker arrested upon departing a routine hearing at a San Francisco immigration court, struck down key parts of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. Judge Pitts, appointed by Joe Biden, in effect reinstated Biden-era policies that limited arrests at immigration courthouses to narrow circumstances and capped detentions in short-term facilities to 12 hours.
This will be ignored, but it’s good the ruling exists at least. Especially the cap on short term detention centers. Doesn’t this judge know they need slave labor to keep the billion dollar facility slightly operational?
Yeah the goal is to grab and detain without any connection to the family so there’s no means of response and ultimately deport in which a response is nearly impossible short of the person being wealthy enough or actually a citizen.