"Within weeks, there could be a halt to the Trump administration's practice of arresting immigrants at court hearings in San Francisco, if a district court judge rules in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union and other Bay Area groups challenging the practice. Immigration agents have for months arrested immigrants after their asylum hearings, placed them in federal custody, and tried to deport them to the countries they have fled from (and, as of late, to countries they have never been to)."
"At stake in Carmen Aracely Pablo Sequen et al. v. Sergio Albarran et al. is not whether such a practice is just, but whether it is legal. The government says yes: A federal attorney argued in front of Judge Casey Pitts of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday that there is precedent for arresting and deporting asylum-seekers before their cases have been fully heard. Not so, argued Jordan Wells, from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights."
A district court may soon halt the Trump administration’s practice of arresting immigrants at court hearings in San Francisco while a legal challenge proceeds. Immigration agents have been arresting asylum-seekers after hearings, placing them in federal custody, and attempting deportations, sometimes to countries the detainees never visited. Plaintiffs argue that courthouse arrests break a 40-year practice that barred detention during pending asylum cases absent changed circumstances. The government contends there is legal precedent allowing arrests and deportations before cases conclude. Judges have already issued orders on ICE detention conditions, including a preliminary injunction requiring mattresses, blankets, and medical care, which attorneys say ICE is violating.
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