Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped.

[mysteryowl]

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.

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"It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
Most of the rulings center on the Trump administration’s departure from a nearly three-decade-old interpretation of federal law that immigrants already living in the United States could be released on bond while they pursue their cases in immigration court.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the administration is "working to lawfully deliver on President Trump’s mandate to enforce federal immigration law."

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Under Trump, the number of people in ICE detention reached about 68,000 this month, up about 75% from when Trump took office last year.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

[Walleye]

1. They want to punish people, harshly for violating chickenshit, little immigration rules.

At the same time, violating the law of the land, the constitution in large ways. They don’t really believe in enforcing the law, just punishing people

[haele]

2. They don't care if there's even a chickenshit violation.

They want to punish immigrants for being immigrants, and non-white people for the bounty.

Goons who get paid for the amount of people they process, even if they have to release them, are going to grab anyone who looks "un-American" on suspicion of being a criminal undocumented person, even if they are 10 years old, or have valid ID on them, or have no record other than maybe a record of visa and green card check-ins.

And if those civilians talk back or resist, that give the goons licence to beat or kill them.

This Administration is punishing people because they feel like it.

[Walleye]

4. your account is very accurate. Infuriating

[allegorical oracle]

3. Scary bit for me is "detainment centers" that hold up to 10,000 people are being set up

or have been,. So once the "worst of the worst" are seized, and people who aren't certified citizens are locked up, (and possibly deported) who's left to fill those centers? They are already locking up citizens and their families.

Why the need for tens-of-thousands of lock-ups? For anyone who simply disagrees with TSF?