@sacramentourbanmedia916: A federal judge in #Chicago has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release more than 600 illegal immigrants from a suburban detention center, accusing the agency of “repeated, material violations” of a court-approved consent decree restricting who can be detained under U.S. immigration law. U.S. District Judge #JeffreyCummings ruled that the detainees at the Broadview ICE facility must be released “on bond and into ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program” by Nov. 21, citing what he described as a “pattern of unlawful arrests and confinement.” The order stems from Margarito Castañon Nava v. DHS, a class-action lawsuit alleging that federal agents illegally detained hundreds of migrants who were neither subject to mandatory detention nor under final removal orders—directly violating a 2021 Biden-era decree later carried over into the Trump administration. In his ruling, Cummings said migrants were held in “unsafe and unsanitary” conditions, including overcrowded spaces “next to overflowing toilets.” He also criticized DHS for making a “180-degree change” in its interpretation of detention authority.#fyp #viral #trending
