During a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, ruled that hundreds of detainees must be granted bond by Nov. 21, according to ABC7. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must provide Cummings with a list of detainees by Friday.
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“At every turn activist judges, sanctuary politicians, and violent rioters have actively tried to prevent our law enforcement officers from arresting and removing the worst of the worst,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire.
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The ruling comes after immigration advocates at the National Immigrant Justice Center argued that federal immigration agents violated a consent decree in Illinois when they arrested the detainees.
Last month, Cummings ruled that the feds’ warrantless arrests in Chicago violated a previous consent decree that required officers to evaluate whether there is probable cause and if the target is a flight risk before making arrests.
Warrantless arrests are routine for federal immigration authorities, who often conduct surveillance and utilize informants to verify targets.
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Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley twisted the story of Galeano’s arrest, falsely accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of snatching “a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.”
But DHS debunked Quigley’s claims.
“Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts,” the agency wrote on X.
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Galeano crossed the border in 2023 and had her children smuggled into the country last month, DHS said.
During her latest arrest, the Colombian woman tried to lie to about her identity and denied that she knew the male driver in her car, saying she “just picked him up from a bus stop,” DHS said.
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