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US district judge P Casey Pitts of the northern district of California on Tuesday vacated ICE’s policies that had rescinded previous strictures on arrests at immigration courthouses and allowed detainees to be held in short-term cells for up to 72 hours.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.
Cool. Now make them being back all the people they kidnapped.
The Trump presidencies have really stressed what is legal and our response towards illegal action. This is a bit like when there isn’t a law saying you shouldn’t fuck a horse and then someone goes and fucks a horse so now we need the no horse fucking law.
The Trump presidencies have highlighted how, effectively, the President has dictatorial power lasting from the moment he announces something until the courts get around to ruling against it , which can take from days to many months. And we have always just depended on the President to not abuse this too badly.
I mean we are glazing over the massive fact that they’ve controlled the house and the Senate as well. A president who doesn’t would likely face immediate and harsh backlash otherwise.
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 if the person is wealthy enough or actually a citizen.
