A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people.
The judge said that the White House had also “extended its violence on its own citizens”, citing the killings of Renee Good in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer and Alex Pretti in the same month by border patrol, both US citizens and both protesting in Minneapolis.
“The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation,” US district judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California, said in a scathing decision.
Sykes said the administration had violated her December ruling that found it was illegally denying many detained immigrants a chance for release, amid record levels of immigrants now in detention after being apprehended by various agencies under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) umbrella.
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