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The topic revolves around the constraints on ICE detainers by federal courts since 2010, requiring probable cause and neutral review, and holding local agencies liable for unlawful detention.
“detainers” are administrative requests from a federal immigration agency asking a jail to hold someone for transfer to ICE; they are not judicial warrants and carry no standalone legal authority to a...
When U.S. citizens are picked up by because agents doubt their documentation, they and their lawyers often bring immediate federal challenges — most commonly — and federal judges have frequently order...
Since 2010 federal courts have steadily constrained ICE detainers by treating detainer-based holds as seizures implicating the Fourth Amendment, requiring probable cause and neutral review, and holdin...