Courts Ruled 4,400 Times That ICE Jailed People Illegally

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October 2025 that Donald Trump's administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully.

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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern ...

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FTA: "The court decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Dummkopf Trumpf's fascist immigration crackdown. Yet the diabolical Trumpf junta has continued incarcerating people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal."

Summary:

Detained immigrants have filed more than 20,000 lawsuits seeking their release

Trumpf junta Brownshirts continue detentions despite court rulings

Sheer scale of the lawsuits threatens to clog the judicial system

About 700 Justice Department attorneys deployed to represent the government in immigration cases

~snip~

Most. Inhumane. Homophobic. Racist. President. Ever.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-15 03:22 AM | Reply

Organizations that repeatedly perform illegal acts are criminal organizations.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-15 08:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

How many of these rulings have been overturned, how many are on appeal, how many lacked jurisdiction, how many made a difference?

4400 rulings, hundreds of judges...how many rulings still stand?

Kind of pointless if the rulings weren't upheld.

#3 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-15 11:09 AM | Reply

Yeah, it's totally pointless that ICE is violating the law constantly.

*rolls eyes*

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-15 11:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

www.politico.com

"ICE is not a law unto itself," Judge Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge on Minnesota's federal bench, said Wednesday in a ruling describing staggering defiance by ICE to judges' orders " particularly ones requiring the release of detained immigrants. He estimated, conservatively, that the agency had violated court orders by Minnesota judges 96 times this month alone.

But who cares?

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-02-15 11:30 AM | Reply

Kind of pointless if the rulings weren't upheld.
#3 | Posted by Petrous

Whose job is it to uphold the law?

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 11:42 AM | Reply

4400 illegal arrests of American citizens are a dry run for the illegal arrests of 4.4 million American citizens.

Trump is attempting to build a gulag to hold us in.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-15 11:54 AM | Reply

If the arrests are determined legal by a higher court,the lower court was wrong.

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of ICE, all the lower courts were wrong.

The Executive enforces the law.
The Judicial can interpret the Executivr has not followed law.

If the 100's of judges ruled ICE was wrong only to be overturned by a higher court,then the 100's were wrong.

Just because judges said illegal doesn't mean it that was true after being overturned.

How many of these rulings have been overturned, how many are on appeal, how many lacked jurisdiction, how many made a difference?

Lower court judges aren't always right.

#8 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-15 04:06 PM | Reply

"If the arrests are determined legal by a higher court,the lower court was wrong."

Until that happens, the arrests are illegal.

You seem to be saying it's okay for the police do to illegal things, because they might someday be declared legal.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-15 04:46 PM | Reply

#3 | Posted by Petrous
#8 | Posted by Petrous

How many time can you twist yourself like a pretzel, until you simply become pizza dough?

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-02-15 04:46 PM | Reply

#10 How many times until pizza dough?

I say, last month.

Perhaps earlier.

#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-15 04:56 PM | Reply

#8 I suppose that explains why Plessy v. Ferguson is still the law of the land.

Right?

#12 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-15 04:58 PM | Reply

@#8 ... If the Supreme Court rules in favor of ICE, all the lower courts were wrong. ...

So your current alias seems to be placing its hope with a possible ruling from the Trump-owned SCOTUS?

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-15 07:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1