Posted on 12/03/2025 4:32:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A federal judge late Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making widespread immigration arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants or probable cause that the person is an imminent flight risk.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington granted a preliminary injunction sought by civil liberties and immigrants rights groups in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Officers making civil immigration arrests generally have to have an administrative warrant. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, they may make arrests without a warrant only if they have probable cause to believe the person is in the U.S. illegally and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained, according to Howell’s ruling.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other plaintiffs’ attorneys argued federal officers were frequently patrolling and setting up checkpoints in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods with large numbers of Latino immigrants and then stopping and arresting people indiscriminately.
They provided sworn declarations from people they say were arrested without warrants or a required assessment of flight risk and cited public statements by administration officials that they said showed the administration was not using the probable cause standard.
Howell, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said the plaintiffs had “established a substantial likelihood of an unlawful policy and practice by defendants of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests without probable cause.”
“Defendants’ systemic failure to apply the probable cause standard, including the failure to consider escape risk, directly violates” immigration law and the Department of Homeland Security’s implementing regulations, she said.
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NOT an Article III vested power, your WHOREnor.
Immigration is a power reserved to the EXECUTIVE or, should they decide to do their jobs, the Congress.
Another tin-pot dictator wanna-be...
Ignore him/her/it
This “judge” should have been gone years ago. One of those 0bama gifts that keeps on giving.
I thought SCOTUS said they cannot do this
I could agree with preventing arrest without probably cause, but flight risk doesn’t matter, they’re illegal, ship them out.
So then Trump can counter this with an Executive Order limiting rulings from DC courts.
This epidemic of judicial rulings is like a nation-wide case of the Illinois SAFE-T Act (no bail, put ‘em back on the streets. What could possibly go wrong?)
they have, several times, but black-robed terrorists think - since Marbury v. Madison - THEY and THEY alone have the power, all the power vested in Congress and the Executive… because they say so.
Kill the filibuster, start impeaching judges.
Mike Johnson doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to do what’s right.
SUDHIN THANAWALA...
Deport this................
Not mentioned, is that before the arrest the officers stop the suspect for questioning and then based on that questioning develop P/C that the subject is not here legally.
Why should a “co-equal” branch of the government be immune from the kind of unchecked power and restrictions they’re imposing on the others?
A first step should be to arrest and detain the judge and all of his staff. When a lawyer comes to the judge’s aid, arrest and detain the lawyer.
Weaponization of the law is destroying the American Republic.
Flight risk?
We’re asking them to self-deport, how do you differentiate between flight and flight?
If they don’t “flight” on their own, put ‘em on a plane, and help them along!
This judge needs close scrutiny, he’s dancing on puppet strings held by an evil force.
"Leave alone our Beltway house slaves."
Fanatic Obama Judge Beryl Howell ordered pretrial detention for J6 protesters. Many languished for years in the DC gulag without a trial. She’s worse than Boasberg and should be impeached.
A great idea.
It is time to ignore the corrupt federal judges.
Another day, another reason to scrap Congre$$ and reimagine it.
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