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The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions.
In a growing number of cases, the Trump administration has recently begun admitting to judges it is unable to defend some of its decisions to detain immigrants.
In dozens of cases over the past several weeks, Justice Department lawyers have declined to push back on detainees’ claims that they’re owed a chance to make a case for their release. In those cases, the administration has simply agreed to provide a bond hearing, or even outright release, telling judges that officials “do not have an opposition argument to present” or saying they couldn’t cobble together enough information to mount a defense.
“Undersigned counsel was unable to obtain documentation … sufficient to provide factual support for a response,” a Justice Department attorney wrote in a March 13 response to a detainee’s lawsuit in Arizona. “Accordingly, [administration officials] do not oppose the Court ordering Petitioner to receive a bond hearing at this time.”
This is ICE's way of saying they had no grounds to detain people. ICE knows they violated the Constitutional Rights of the people they detained and are looking for a way out.
In a growing number of cases, the Trump administration has recently begun admitting to judges it is unable to defend some of its decisions to detain immigrants.
In dozens of cases over the past several weeks, Justice Department lawyers have declined to push back on detainees’ claims that they’re owed a chance to make a case for their release. In those cases, the administration has simply agreed to provide a bond hearing, or even outright release, telling judges that officials “do not have an opposition argument to present” or saying they couldn’t cobble together enough information to mount a defense.
“Undersigned counsel was unable to obtain documentation … sufficient to provide factual support for a response,” a Justice Department attorney wrote in a March 13 response to a detainee’s lawsuit in Arizona. “Accordingly, [administration officials] do not oppose the Court ordering Petitioner to receive a bond hearing at this time.”
This is ICE's way of saying they had no grounds to detain people. ICE knows they violated the Constitutional Rights of the people they detained and are looking for a way out.
