The ACLU challenge for the arrest of the ICE justice palace rejected by the federal judge

A federal judge ruled on Friday that ICE agents can continue to arrests from the courthouse in New York, which has closed a dispute raised by ACLU and immigrants’ rights groups.

District judge P. Kevin Castel, appointed by George W. Bush, noted that there was not enough evidence to suggest that changes in the ICE justice palace policy were “unexplained, arbitrary and capricious” after 2021, the directives, allowed arrests to immigration or nearby courses.

Noting that the directives in 2025 are more “expansive and permissive”, Castel has recognized that the ice has made changes because local correctional facilities and prisons, which are considered “safe” locations due to security screening, are not available due to state and local policies concerning immigration holders.

Dozens of immigrants are held by American immigration and customs agents within the Federal Plaza courthouse in New York on June 26 after their legal proceedings. (Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty Images)

The federal judge rejects the complaint of the immunity of the Milwaukee judge in the case of obstruction of the ice

However, the judge blocked a policy of the Ministry of Justice encouraging immigration judges to reject cases so that the ice can immediately stop migrants.

The Trump administration launched an initiative in June to arrest illegal immigrants after asylum hearings.

Tactics has aroused controversy, criticisms saying that migrants seeking legal citizenship would be less likely to run for hearings, and those arrested after hearings may not have additional criminal stories.

Federal agents hold a man after his hearing before the Federal Building Immigration Court of Ted Weiss on July 9, 2025 in New York. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

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The videos of the arrests have become viral on social networks, some going as far as the accusation of the “kidnapping” ice of migrants.

“In its fervor to expel as many immigrants as possible from the country, the Trump administration aims at immigrants at the very place set up to judge their status: the immigration court,” wrote Diana Konaté, assistant executive director of politics and defense of African communities, wrote in a statement published by ACLU.

“Every day, our members are forced to choose between being kidnapped and / or put an accelerated return or risk deeper legal consequences because they are too afraid to go to court.

“This is exactly what the administration wanted – so that people are so afraid of the application that they lose the resources and systems even in place to protect them. We intended this trial on behalf of our members and fighting for justice.”

DHS previously pointed out a demonstrator eating knives in a kffiyeh in ambush of ice agents in a courthouse in San Francisco. (Department of Internal Security)

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Some judges fought against politics, helping to escape migrants after the hearings.

Milwaukee Hannah Dugan judge was charged in May for federal accusations after having pretended to say an illegal immigrant to leave by a private outing at the Milwaukee County justice palace while the ICE officials served an arrest warrant.

Audrey Conklin of Fox News Digital and Bill Melugin of Fox News contributed to this report.