Some people do Friday Zillow. We do Friday habeas. Here are some cases of people who have been detained by ICE and ordered released by judges who said the detention was illegal.
Mexican man with no criminal history and six US citizen kids.
Man in US for 18 years, two US citizen kids.
Here, Judge Tanya Pratt ordered release of a woman subejct to "mandatory detention" but spent much of the ruling chiding the government for making unforced errors and missing deadlines.
Here, Judge Diamond orders a bond hearing for a detained Russian national -- and then lays out that 1/6 cases filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have been ICE detentions. And every ruling (201) has gone againt the government.
Here's a man from Kyrgyzstan with work authorization arrested at a weigh station in West Virginia.
Alberto M., a man with no criminal history, says ICE agents asked if he was "Jorge" and then injured him during his arrest. Judge Bryan ordered his release, saying the arrest was unlawful because there was no warrant.
Judge Mark Norris of Tennessee becomes the 29th to side with the Trump administration's view of mandatory detention, and the 21st Trump appointee. Like several others, he says the man he is ordering detained seems hardworking and law-abiding, and he regrets the result.
Judge Padin of New Jersey orders the release of a woman she says is likely detained illegally — and makes it effective by tomorrow so that the woman can resume full-time care for her 5-year-old U.S. citizen child.
Judge Tana Lin orders the release of a man she says was treated so negligently, despite severe medical distress in ICE custody (due to ulerative colitis), that it likely led to permanent disability (loss of bone and part of his foot).
Yet another judge suggesting that the Trump administration is trying to detain people with sloppy paperwork and incomplete filings.
BONUS RULING: Judge O'Hearn says the administration's persistent violations of court orders signals "blatant disregard for judicial authority, undermines the administration of justice, and raises substantial questions as to [the administration's] commitment to the rule of law."
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