#ice-policy

#ice-policy

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its Justice Department counterpart from "sweeping" civil arrests at immigration courthouses across Northern California, teeing up an appellate challenge to one of the Trump administration's most controversial deportation tactics. "This circumstance presents noncitizens in removal proceedings with a Hobson's choice between two irreparable harms," Judge P. Casey Pitts wrote in his Christmas Eve decision. "First, they may appear in immigration court and face likely arrest and detention," the judge wrote.

Newsom signed a flurry of bills over the weekend pushing back against the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, including a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting federal law enforcement and immigration officers from hiding their identities and barring agents from school campuses and healthcare facilities without a warrant or court order. The legislation comes as Trump has promised mass deportations of immigrants in the United States.