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Before: Mary H. Murguia, Chief Judge, and Consuelo M. Callahan and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges. BEA, Circuit Judge: Dissent by Chief Judge MURGUIA Pursuant to Circuit Rule 27-3, Defendants-Appellants (“the Government”) has moved for an immediate administrative stay and a stay pending appeal of the district court’s grant of a temporary restraining order in favor of Plaintiffs-Appellees. We have jurisdiction over this case under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). The Government’s motion is GRANTED.

A federal judge, appointed by former President Joe Biden, is blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting illegal aliens at courthouses, a practice considered by law enforcement to be the safest way to apprehend those eligible for deportation. On Tuesday, Judge P. Casey Pitts, appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by Biden in 2023, issued an order that will halt ICE’s ability to broadly arrest illegal aliens at courthouses across the United States. “Because the record before the Court demonstrates that ICE … failed to provide reasoned explanations for their actions,...