USDC Judges, Inundated With Habeas Cases, In MN -- Are Bluntly Calling Out These Lawless ICE Tactics/Agents. And Promptly Releasing Hundreds Of Detainees. Excellent!

ICE cannot lawfully pick up people in the street -- just based on skin color, or accented English. It cannot grab people without a full judicial warrant, unless it sees (for example) a bank robbery in progress (i.e., not likely). So it is that (as was true in Chicago this summer when I was doing this same sort of appearances work) the vast majority of those grabbed are being set free, on individual habeas petitions, in and around Minneapolis.

Homan won't change a thing. The Constitution is a constant bed-rock. If you are present on US soil, with or without papers, you may invoke its protections. Stand for your rights -- always (and kudos to the many dozens of pro bono lawyers surging into Minnesota, to help out at the ACLU!). Here's a taste of all this:

. . .The Trump administration’s current deportation push in Minneapolis has led to “hundreds of emergency lawsuits from immigrants targeted by ICE,” according to Politico. As a result, federal judges in the area have been “working weekends to manage the backlog and juggling a crush of individual cases. . . .

And in all but a handful of cases, those judges have ruled that the Trump administration violated the law, sometimes flagrantly.” These cases are part of a broader wave of lawsuits over “the Trump administration’s bid to lock up nearly everyone it is targeting for deportation,” rather than only “those deemed dangerous or likely to flee.” Politico noted that the “emergency nature of the cases has so far stymied efforts to get appeals courts or the Supreme Court to weigh in on the policy. . . .”

Onward -- gratified to see the people, rising up, to protect their brothers and sisters -- from a repressive megalomaniac. Out.

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