Minnesota judge orders ICE chief to appear in court over immigrant detention | World News
People participate in an anti-ICE rally in Minneapolis. (AP Photo)
Minnesota’s chief federal judge has ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to appear before the court on Friday and explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt as the judge said the US President Donald Trump’s adminration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants.
Chief Judge Patrick J Schiltz, in an order dated Monday, said ICE’s acting chief Todd Lyons must appear before the court personally. Judge Schiltz reprimanded Trump adminration over its handling of bond hearings for the immigrants it has detained, AP reported.
The judge wrote, “This Court has been extremely patient with respondents, even though respondents decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provision for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result.”
The order comes a day after President Trump sent border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota and take over his adminration’s immigration crackdown operations in the state, following the second death this month of US citizen federal agents.
(with inputs from AP)
