A Minnesota federal judge ordered Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to testify after questioning ICE’s failure to comply with court orders.
to appear personally in court this week, warning that he could be held in contempt over what the judge described as repeated failures by the, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz directed Lyons to testify in person at a Friday hearing in Minneapolis concerning the detention of, who was arrested by federal immigration agents earlier this month amid the administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities.
Mainstream Democrats direct funds to anti-ICE protests carried out by ‘communist’ groups in Minneapolisrequiring ICE to either provide Tobay Robles with a bond hearing within seven days or release him from custody. According to the judge, neither occurred. “This is one of dozens of court orders with which respondents have failed to comply in recent weeks,” Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in a three-page order issued Monday night. He added that the court’s patience had run out, saying that while ordering the head of a federal agency to appear personally is an extraordinary step, ICE’s conduct warranted it, in his view. “The Court acknowledges that ordering the head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step,” Schiltz wrote. “But the extent of ICE’s violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried and failed.” The hearing is scheduled for Friday at 1 p.m. Schiltz ordered Lyons to “appear in person to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of Court” for violating the court’s Jan. 14 order. The judge notably said the hearing would be canceled only if the parties file a notice showing that Tobay Robles has been released from custody before Friday. Otherwise, Lyons must attend.Federal courts in the state have been flooded in recent weeks with emergency filings from detainees alleging unlawful arrests, prolonged detention, or failure to receive court-ordered bond hearings. Judges have repeatedly ordered ICE to release detainees or comply with strict timelines, according to court records. Schiltz accused ICE and other Trump administration officials of dragging their feet or defying those directives. “The practical consequence of respondents’ failure to comply has almost always been significant hardship to aliens,” Schiltz wrote, adding that many detainees have “lawfully lived and worked in the United States for years and done absolutely nothing wrong.”request seeking appellate intervention after a federal magistrate judge rejected most proposed arrest warrants tied to a protest that targeted worship services at Cities Church in St. Paul earlier this month.sought by DOJ prosecutors. The DOJ subsequently asked for a district judge to review Micko’s decision, a move Schiltz described as virtually unheard of in his district. “If the government does not like the magistrate judge’s decision, it can either improve the affidavit and present it again to the same magistrate judge or it can present its case to a grand jury and seek an indictment,” Schiltz wrote. The judge cited Tobay Robles’s case as emblematic of broader compliance issues, noting that the failure to provide a bond hearing within the court-ordered seven-day window meant the detainee was now overdue for release.While acknowledging the separation-of-powers concerns involved in ordering a senior executive branch official to court, Schiltz said continued noncompliance left him with no alternative.
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