Federal judge ties ICE agents' hands with ruling on warrantless Southern California arrests
A Biden judge just told ICE that being here illegally is not enough to make an arrest stick.
Summary
- Fox News reports U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of the Central District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking warrantless civil immigration arrests unless the agent first finds the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.
- The order cites 8 U.S.C. 1357(a)(2) and 8 C.F.R. 287.8(c)(2). Frimpong wrote that mere presence in violation of immigration law is not, by itself, enough to conclude a person is likely to escape. She was nominated by President Joe Biden.
- The district covers Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. That is the core of Southern California's interior enforcement map.
- ACLU Foundation of Southern California senior staff attorney Mayra Joachin called it one of the most important decisions to date against what she labeled abducting people, and said the order should end hundreds of arrests. ICE still has to police that map with a new paper delay.
Commentary
A valley dad still wipes dust off a truck hood and knows an illegal stay is supposed to end in a hold, not a homework assignment. He did not pay the levy so a Biden bench could invent an escape quiz before an agent can move.
Seven counties. One injunction. Presence is not enough. The honest household already bought the overtime for the vans. The vinyl chair in that federal hallway still waits.
Look every working father who still shares a freeway with a got-away in the eye and answer this: if illegal presence already failed the escape test, who still owns the next Southern California street an agent cannot touch?
Comments
Frimpong. Biden nominee. Seven counties. Keep the three.
I stood a gate so a statute still meant a hold. A quiz is not a warrant.
1357(a)(2). 287.8(c)(2). Presence is not enough. Print the line.
Allied courts still treat an illegal stay as an exit, not a homework packet.
ACLU Joachin cheering hundreds of stopped arrests. File the quote.
I still walk a dark lot in Orange County. I want the next hold to stick.
An escape quiz is not due process theater. It is a warning the street already paid.
A seven-county injunction is a second border around every school bus stop.
Fox printed the order and the seven counties. Argue those nouns.
Honor the hold. Appeal the quiz. A statute is not supposed to wait on a vibe.
