was right then, is right now
5th Circuit panel curtails indefinite detention of people arrested without any probable cause
newsworthy because it's the normally Trump-friendly 5th Circuit cir scribing Trump
tl;dr
5th circuit requires that ICE detainees receive a bond hearing within 90 days if authorities had no probable cause to detain
s3.do entcloud.org/do ents/28...
one of the judges preferred 30 days, the Trump judge thought the whole matter was nonjusticiable
when the government loses in court 10,000 times, it's breaking the law and violating people's rights
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/0...lysis-00914195Ten thousand losses.
That’s the Trump administration’s track record in court as federal judges grapple with the way ICE agents have swept through major U.S. cities and detained thousands of people in support of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.
More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.
Trump’s unprecedented detention policy, which is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court, infuriated lower courts in ways no other modern issue has. It ruptured the relationship between the Justice Department and the judiciary; pitted the administration against itself; and upended innumerable lives — not just of the people swept up by immigration agents, but of their spouses and children, many of whom are U.S. citizens.
POLITICO is tracking the tens of thousands of detention cases that have flooded the system since ICE adopted its detention policy last July. Today we are releasing a full database of those rulings, giving the public an opportunity to see under the hood of our reporting — which has do ented the courts’ lopsided results, ICE’s tactics for defying judges’ orders and the rising tensions between the judiciary and the Trump administration.
The trend is clear from every angle. The administration has lost nearly 10,400 of the cases that have been decided, and prevailed in about 1,200. While some judges have heard more cases than others, the overwhelming majority of judges — more than 425 — have reached the same conclusion. Even a majority of Trump-appointed judges have sided against the administration.
Trump's contemporary mass revocation of asylum for hundreds of thousands of people is a probable economic shot in the foot
this 2024 report mainly rehashes the 2017 study that Trump canned at the time
refugees appear to be a clear net economic plus for the USA
https://www.americanimmigrationcounc...han-they-cost/A report released this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that refugees and asylees have generated tens of billions of dollars more in local, state, and federal tax revenues over the last 15 years than they have cost in direct government services—ultimately representing a net fiscal gain at all levels of government.
From 2005 to 2019, refugees and asylees paid a total of $123.8 billion more in taxes than they cost in government services, for a net fiscal gain of $31.5 billion to the federal government and $92.3 billion to state and local governments combined. Refugees and asylees paid an estimated $363 billion to the federal government through payroll, income, and excise taxes, and $218 billion to state and local governments through income, sales, and property taxes.
Even when factoring in their spouses and children under 18, many of whom are U.S. citizens, refugees and asylees still provided a net fiscal gain, costing $723.4 billion in government services yet paying $739.4 billion in tax revenue, for a net gain of $16 billion.
“This historic federal study is important data-driven evidence demonstrating that over time, refugees, asylees, and their immediate families have made significant positive fiscal contributions to our country,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the agency press release. “I hope this report becomes a key reference for decision-makers in all levels of government when it comes to refugee resettlement.”
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) report considered all refugees and asylees who had arrived since 1980. A refugee is defined as someone who cannot return to their homeland for fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and who applies to come to the United States from another country.
I mean, technically you can become a Frenchman...
No thanks, I'm good right here!
deporting refugees from communism is morally deranged
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nese-crackdownA Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution.
Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers. He travelled to the US on a tourist visa and made an asylum claim in 2020, for which he is still awaiting a decision.
In the US, he found work as an Amazon courier while remaining active in China’s embattled human rights community.
On Wednesday, Wu was stopped by ICE officers the Mount Holly Springs borough in berland county, Pennsylvania, while delivering parcels.
According to an account relayed through Shi Minglei, a friend who spoke to him in detention on Thursday, ICE officers asked Wu to provide proof of his citizenship. Wu presented proof of his pending asylum application and explained that he had entered the country legally.
mass deportation with a child trafficking kicker
https://apnews.com/article/97b06cede...bf25a48cb6c26fIt had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see the girl again.What followed — one foster family’s initially successful attempt to win full custody of Alexa — reveals what could happen to some of the infants, children and teens taken from their families at the border under a Trump administration policy earlier this year. The “zero-tolerance” crackdown ended in June, but hundreds of children remain in detention, shelters or foster care and U.S. officials say more than 200 are not eligible for reunification or release.
Federal officials insist they are reuniting families and will continue to do so. But an Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court do ents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents.
no commandeering, especially via illegal orders
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...A federal judge in Minnesota — Trump appointed chief judge Eric Tostrud — has rejected the administration's effort to force Minnesota to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration law.
1997's SCOTUS decision "Printz v U.S.", thrilled right-wingers cause it was the decision that killed the Brady Handgun Law. SCOTUS said the feds can't force state and local cops to enforce federal law. MAGA is learning that knife cuts both ways.
US opinion appears to be thermostatic after 2001, but recent trends are visible
same or increased is ~2/3
2/3rds against continued mass deportation
deep underwater on one of his stronger issues
1/4 of polled Republicans support abolishing ICE
in conformity with the president's preferred policies of racial animus and xenophobia, US ethnic cleansing will soon target Haitians
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...tected-status/Any uptick in deportations to Haiti would almost certainly raise political and humanitarian challenges, given the dire situation in the Caribbean nation, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Significant portions of Haiti are controlled by criminal gangs, and the U.S. has generally limited deportations to Cap-Haïtien, in the country's north, due to the instability and insecurity in the capital of Port-au-Prince. The State Department urges Americans not to visit Haiti under any cir stances, citing the rampant violence there.
not even the worst of the worst, Trump is deporting good people by a wide margin
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2618096123
7th and 9th Circuit courts rule against Trump's mandatory detention policy -- US Circuit courts are now split 6-2 against
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datasto...30/25-6842.pdf
This is the one where for 30 years every administration agreed that the text of the statute was clear: "illegal immigrants" found living inside the U.S. cannot be detained without bond as a matter of statute (and due process).
That changed in July of last year, when the Trump admin. decided everyone misunderstood the law for 30 years.
ethnic cleansing immigrant sweeps in the great American outdoors
ICE pull you right out of the river
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/ne...316686109.htmlU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has extended its reach into North Carolina’s wilderness areas to find people suspected of living in the country illegally. On Sunday, multiple arrests were made at Wilson Creek recreation area in Pisgah National Forest, which is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The scenic river is about a 90-mile drive northwest from uptown Charlotte.
not everything that is legal to do is ethical, moral or sustainable over time
the society where all strangers' iden ies are challenged is also the society in which many natural citizens are challenged to prove their nativity and for whatever reason cannot
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