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We might be about to find out what happens when ICE disregards a judge's order to release an immigrant it's locked in a cell

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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ICE is blaming "an administrative oversight" for the way it failed to comply with a judge's April 14 deadline to either release an immigrant it had thrown in a cell or to get him before an immigration judge for a bond hearing. US District Court Judge Leo Sorokin now wants a more detailed answer than that: He is demanding ICE explain what it's going to do to ensure it "does not in the future detain persons in disregard of binding and unambiguous federal-court orders." Sorokin had set the April 14 deadline in the case of Victor Henrique Nunes Carvalho, a Brazilian national who had filed a habeas-corpus motion on April 3 seeking freedom while fights to stay in the US. Case records available online do not specify where was locked up, but do say it was in Massachusetts, and there is only one facility in the state that accepts ICE detainees - the Plymouth County jail.…

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