Joswar Torres is finally free after spending seven months unjustly locked up by ICE in Washington state. This is a massive legal defeat for the administration’s detention policy, delivered by a federal judge who said Torres’ constitutional rights had been violated, per The Guardian.
The ruling came from US District Court Judge James Robart, who was appointed by George W. Bush. Robart’s strong condemnation of the current administration’s methods is particularly notable. The judge specifically ruled that DHS officials failed to consider Torres’ individual facts or circumstances before detaining him in June 2025. This, Robart concluded, “constitutes an abuse of DHS discretion” and violates the law.
