US EditionJudge Issues Injunction Restricting Immigration Arrests in Nation’s Capital
Judge Howell enjoins widespread warrantless immigration arrests in D.C., requiring agents to document probable cause and flight risk for each pre-arrest case, citing legal violations.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a preliminary injunction halting widespread civil immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., responding to a lawsuit by civil liberties and immigrants-rights groups against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Plaintiffs argued the American Civil Liberties Union showed officers frequently patrolled Latino neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., while attorneys for the administration denied any policy authorizing warrantless arrests.
- U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered federal agents making civil immigration arrests to document particularized facts supporting warrantless pre-arrest probable cause and submit that to plaintiffs' attorneys, noting federal rules require warrants except under the Immigration and Nationality Act's flight-risk exception.
- The ruling echoes two similar federal decisions in Colorado and California involving the ACLU and follows a Los Angeles order later lifted by the Supreme Court in September.
- An email to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security late Tuesday was not immediately returned, while attorneys for the administration denied a policy permitting such arrests as the case joins other federal challenges in Colorado and California.
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