Unhinged Judges Look For Ways Around Superior Court Ruling On ICE Detention Policy

In a sane world these judges would be removed from the bench

ICE’s detention policy won at the 5th Circuit. Then judges found another way to reject it.

When a federal appeals court in February endorsed ICE’s unprecedented policy to detain — without bond — thousands of immigrants with established roots in the U.S., the Trump administration celebrated it as a landmark win.

It’s not actually unprecedented, federal law actually says illegals who are caught get a small fine, potential detainment, then deportation

The Feb. 6 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cut against the overwhelming rejection of ICE’s new detention policy by federal district courts around the country. And because the 5th Circuit’s rulings are binding on judges in Texas, where a significant share of ICE detainees are held, the decision seemed poised to reverse the tide.

What has played out since tells a more complicated story.

Judges bound by the appeals court’s holding have overwhelmingly continued to reject ICE’s detention policy. Instead of labeling the policy a violation of the law — an interpretation taken off the table by the 5th Circuit decision — those judges have concluded that ICE has violated detainees’ constitutional due process rights, a distinct violation that the appeals court didn’t address.

Due process? “Are you in the US illegally? Yes? Then you are in violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien. You’ll be held till deported.”

As a result, judges in Texas and Louisiana have ordered bond hearings or release of ICE detainees more than 1,200 times on due process grounds since the appeals court’s ruling, according to a POLITICO analysis.

That’s nearly 60 percent of all immigration detention rulings in the 5th Circuit since the Feb. 6 decision. The 5th Circuit is now considering whether ICE detainees subject to ICE’s “mandatory detention” policy are owed the due process that these district court judges decisively say they are.

These judges care more about illegals, and their far left beliefs, then actual law and American citizens.