Federal authorities repeatedly violated a settlement governing policy on warrantless immigration arrests, attorneys argued in Chicago federal court Friday, saying it felt like they were back to “square one” in a case that was filed seven years ago.
Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center said the government has constructed a “parallel regime” of improper procedures to evade their obligations under the settlement, including an policy allowing agents to carry around blank warrants to fill out after someone has been detained.
“The problem they don’t want to face up to is that Congress has not given ...
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