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Jaymie Vaz

Trump’s tough-guy ICE act crumbles as his own appointed judge blasts the agency for denying constitutional rights by keeping detainees from lawyers

A federal judge just dropped a massive ruling, stating the Trump administration is violating the constitutional rights of people detained by ICE in Minnesota by denying them access to attorneys. According to Politico, this isn’t just any judge, either. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, who is an appointee of President Trump, pulled no punches in her ruling on Thursday. 

Brasel found that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had stashed people in an overcrowded and ill-equipped facility without letting them talk to their lawyers. She essentially said the administration surged law enforcement into the Twin Cities without even considering “the constitutional rights of its civil detainees.”

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