Overview
- U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson issued a 60-page order Tuesday that found ICE agents in Colorado kept making warrantless arrests without first deciding if a person might flee.
- ICE must create a compliant training program within two weeks and train every officer allowed to make warrantless arrests within 45 days, with untrained officers and new hires after May 12 barred from such arrests until they finish.
- The court ordered stronger recordkeeping and monthly handovers to immigrant attorneys that include training materials, the list of trained officers, and detailed arrest logs, and it awarded attorneys' fees.
- Agents at a March hearing admitted they had not been trained on the November limits, and the judge said ICE had uniformly failed to follow his documentation rules for warrantless arrests.
- The case stems from an ACLU lawsuit that won a November injunction requiring individualized probable-cause and flight-risk findings, ICE has appealed that order, and similar court limits have been issued in Oregon, California, and Washington, D.C., which could curb collateral arrests of non-targeted immigrants.