With the nationwide ruling, the judge is stopping a particularly controversial component of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policy.Image: www.imago-images.de
June 24, 2026, 04:32June 24, 2026, 04:32
A federal judge has banned the US immigration agency ICE from arresting people in immigration courts. With the nationwide ruling, the judge is stopping a particularly controversial component of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation policy.
Immigration courts in the United States deal, among other things, with cases involving migrants who the government wants to deport. ICE officers began arresting migrants in the hallways of such courts across the country last year, including before legal recourse has been exhausted. Critics saw this as endangering the proper conduct of the procedures and warned of traumatic effects on those affected.
The court document signed by the judge in the state of California stated in support of the decision that the immigration agency ICE had changed course at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. Newly issued guidelines address the benefits of courthouse arrests for enforcing migration laws, but do not address concerns about any negative effects. There was a failure to provide “reasoned explanations” for the new practice. (sda/dpa)