Federal judge says he'll order release of hundreds of Operation Midway Blitz arrestees on bond

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In his ruling, Cummings gave a lengthy interpretation of the importance of probable cause, which he said is "heightened by ICE's embrace" of the race- and employment-based standards set forth recently by the Supreme Court.
55% : He also ordered ICE to broadcast the conditions of the consent decree order to its offices nationwide.
55% : "However, one thing seems clear: ICE rousted American citizens from their apartments during the middle of the night and detained them -- in zip ties no less -- for far longer than the 'brief' period authorized by the operative regulation," Cummings wrote.
52% : Most of those arrested were originally processed at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in west suburban Broadview, but have since been moved to jails around the country.
51% : Meanwhile, Cummings' decision will ultimately affect a much wider segment of the thousands of arrests made by ICE and U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago since the Trump administration's enhanced immigration-enforcement operations.
47% : After the hearing, Fleming, of the National Immigrant Justice Center, said the case would ultimately show that many aspects of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies -- including the "terrorizing of neighborhoods" by Border Patrol Cmdr.
46% : "This case is going to show that all of this, all of the tactics from Mr. Bovino, all of the tactics from ICE, have been unlawful in the vast, vast majority of arrests," Fleming told reporters in the lobby of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.
46% : In his opinion, Cummings ordered ICE to produce the names, detainee tracking information known as "A-numbers," and arrest documents for anyone arrested in northern Illinois without warrants since June.
44% : And the judge also took particular issue with a practice by ICE agents of carrying blank I-200 warrant forms with them on missions and filling them out at the scene.
40% : In his Oct. 7 order extending the consent decree until February, Cummings said ICE had improperly told its field offices over the summer that the consent decree had been canceled.
33% : "It is highly unlikely any of them are criminal gang members, drug traffickers or assorted ne'er-do-wells who fall under the category of what ICE has called 'the worst of the worst,'" Cummings said.

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