{"id":2733,"date":"2026-06-24T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:03:46","slug":"judge-bars-immigration-arrests-at-us-courthouses-in-a-setback-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p>A judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted \u201cnot from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of decision-making,\u201d wrote U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Francisco. Authorities failed to address the \u201cchilling effect\u201d of arrests on whether people attend court hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 80 years, Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act,\u201d wrote Pitts, referring to the Administrative Procedure Act, a 1946 law that requires federal agencies to justify its actions. That law, he wrote, \u201cdoes not require an agency to make the choice that a reviewing court might deem preferable. But it demands that an agency at least provide sound reasons for following its chosen course.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The ruling is the second setback for courthouse arrests since May when a federal judge in New York barred them at immigration courts. That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>James Percival, the U.S. Homeland Security Department\u2019s general counsel, criticized the ruling as an exercise in judicial overreach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a judge sentences a defendant, the defendant is taken into custody. If an alien is ordered removed by an immigration judge, the same should happen. A district judge ordering otherwise is naked judicial activism in service of an anti-American, open borders agenda,\u201d Percival wrote online.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump took office, hearings across the country often ended with cases being dismissed by the government, setting the stage for plainclothes agents to make arrests in hallways in coordination with attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Pitts, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, faulted the administration for carrying out the arrests and for holding people in nearby cells for longer than a prescribed 12-hour limit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2727\">WEDNESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today\u2019s NewsMinute video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2729\">Toon in Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2731\">UN nuclear boss says inspectors will visit Iran sites. 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