A federal judge in California has vacated the Trump administration’s nationwide policies that expanded arrests at immigration courthouses and lengthened how long noncitizens could be held in short-term facilities, finding that the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and another government arm were “arbitrary and capricious,” according to Reuters. This comes a day after a federal judge ruled the administration illegally overhauled a citizen data program to purge voter rolls, as per CNN.
According to the report, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts of the Northern District of California vacated ICE’s policies that had rescinded earlier limits on courthouse arrests and allowed detainees to be held in short-term cells for up to 72 hours. The judge reportedly did the same for a similar policy from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which had removed limits on courthouse arrests.
