Top ICE official quietly sent memo to clarify agency’s arrest policy after months of chaos in courthouse hallways
Donald Trump’s administration has falsely stated for nearly a year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers can arrest people inside immigration courts, where agents standing outside courtroom doors have swiftly cuffed thousands of immigrants immediately after they left their hearings.
The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan — which emerged as a major flashpoint for courthouse arrests over the last year — repeatedly expressed “regret” in a letter to a federal judge this week, saying that his office mistakenly defended an ICE memo that “does not and has never applied” to immigration court arrests.
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton blamed ICE and the agency’s legal team, which “specifically informed” his office that a Trump-era memo “applied to immigration courthouse arrests,” according to Clayton.
you don’t mistakenly do highly televised things for over a year
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Does anyone actually believe this was a mistake?
One of Steve Martin’s earliest bits was his advice to get out of any legal problems: Just say “I forgot!” and they let you go for anything.
It wasn’t a “mistake”.
It was! They said, “whoops” and everything! If you ask them, they’ll probably tell you that they feel really bad about it. And then arrest and deport you. On accident.
With Republicans, the cruelty is the point. When you start to look at things they do through that lens, it all makes sense…
Exactly.
“Mistakenly”.
If it was actually a “mistake”, they should release all those immigrants from the concentration camps
They don’t get to just say oops.
They need to be abolished, arrested, tried, and locked away and made examples of.
Especially those who murdered and covered up and destroyed evidence of the murders of Pretti and Good.
Just following mistaken orders… mhmmmh mmhmhmm
“oops, all constitutional crisis!”
Justice for Judge Dugan then?
