Corrupt Obama-appointed Judge Beryl Howell on Tuesday evening barred the Trump Administration from making warrantless immigration arrests in DC.
Judge Howell issued a preliminary injunction blocking the warrantless arrests unless the illegal alien is an escape risk.
“This case arises in the wake of a publicly declared emergency in our Nation’s Capital explained by the current president, in part, to ensure that “[t]his city will no longer be a sanctuary for illegal alien criminals,”” the judge said scolding President Trump.
“Such repeated conjoined use by high-ranking officials of the words “criminal” and “alien” prompts the need for clarification of two fundamental facts in reviewing the two pending motions brought by individual immigrants and an immigrant-focused organization in this case,” the judge said.
Courthouse News reported:
A federal judge Tuesday night ordered the Trump administration to cease its campaign of arresting immigrants in Washington, D.C. without a warrant or probable cause of a flight risk, warning that the White House’s mistreatment of immigrants could put Americans overseas at risk.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that, while federal agents may have the authority to make warrantless immigration arrests, the way that authority has been used on the immigrant community in Washington was likely unlawful.
“Defendants are preliminarily enjoined from enforcing their policy of conducting warrantless civil immigration arrests without probable cause to believe that the arrestee is likely to escape before an administrative warrant can be obtained,” Howell wrote in the 88-page opinion.
She further certified a class, which she referred to as the “Unassisted Escape Risk Class,” that includes all individuals who, since President Donald Trump’s Aug. 11 “crime emergency,” have been or will be arrested without a warrant and without a pre-arrest, individualized assessment of probable cause.
Judge Howell is the second judge to block the DHS from executing warrantless arrests.
A separate Obama judge in Colorado last month issue a similar ruling.
Beryl Howell’s ruling comes as President Trump halted all immigration and naturalization processes for migrants from 19 “travel ban” countries.
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