"On Jan. 26, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz prohibited ICE from moving an immigrant, Baljinder Kumar, out of New Jersey while he challenged his unlawful detention. Five days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement flagrantly defied that order, transferring Kumar to a detention center in ... Texas. After his lawyers complained, federal officials returned Kumar to New Jersey. But Farbiarz was not inclined to let this disobedience go unpunished."
"This confession, first reported by Politico's Kyle Cheney, was accompanied by a letter stating that "we regret deeply all violations" but insisting that they were "unintentional and immediately rectified once we learned of them." Fox, who is helping lead the New Jersey office after courts ousted Donald Trump's first choice, Alina Habba, depicted these transgressions as relatively minor and rare. But Farbiarz did not buy it, noting that Kumar's illegal transfer to Texas was far from an "outlier.""
On Jan. 26, a federal judge barred ICE from moving immigrant Baljinder Kumar out of New Jersey while he challenged his detention. ICE transferred Kumar to Texas five days later; after lawyers complained, officials returned him to New Jersey. The judge ordered the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey to investigate and enumerate instances of violating district court orders since Dec. 5. The office reported at least 56 violations related to a Trump-era policy mandating indefinite detention of noncitizens entitled to bond hearings. The office expressed regret, called the violations unintentional and promptly rectified, but the judge rejected portrayals of the incidents as isolated.
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