7th Circ. Judge Wary Of Releasing Hundreds Of ICE Detainees

By Celeste Bott ( December 2, 2025, 7:11 PM EST) -- A Seventh Circuit judge said Tuesday a district judge who released on bond hundreds of civil immigration detainees arrested by the Trump administration acted "as if these are two private parties negotiating over the terms of a contract" and suggested that allowing his orders to stand could allow one presidential administration to use consent decrees to entrench their policy positions on the next....

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