A senior federal judge in Minnesota, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, warned on 26 February 2026 that he is prepared to escalate to criminal contempt if US officials keep failing to follow his court orders, insisting that 'ICE will comply' with the court's directions.
Schiltz says his court has been forced into an unusually repetitive cycle of threats and enforcement because, in his telling, ICE has continued breaching deadlines even after the court publicly identified a pattern of noncompliance in late January.
