Federal Judge Vacates Trump Administration's Immigration Court Arrest Policies

A federal judge in California has vacated the Trump administration's policies that expanded arrests at immigration courthouses and increased the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term facilities. Judge P. Casey Pitts of the Northern District of California ruled that the actions taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review were 'arbitrary and capricious.' This ruling affects policies that had previously removed restrictions on arrests at immigration courthouses and allowed detainees to be held for up to 72 hours in short-term cells.