Federal judge blocks migrant arrests at immigration courts nationwide

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from conducting migrant arrests at immigration courts nationwide, ruling that the policy by ICE was arbitrary and capricious.

A federal judge late Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making arrests at immigration courthouses, barring the practice nationwide. The ruling from San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) allowance of arrests at immigration courthouses was arbitrary and capricious — noting that the agency itself had waffled on…