Judge that ordered release of 600 Chicago illegal immigrants slammed by DHS as activist putting lives at risk

A national justice successful Chicago has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to merchandise much than 600 amerciable immigrants held astatine a suburban detention center, blasting the bureau for "repeated, worldly violations" of a court-approved consent decree that constricted who could beryllium detained nether U.S. migration law.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings ruled that much than 600 detainees being held astatine the Broadview ICE installation indispensable beryllium released "on enslaved and into ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program" by Nov. 21, citing what helium called a "pattern of unlawful arrests and confinement."

The bid stems from Margarito Castañon Nava v. DHS, a class-action suit claiming that national agents unlawfully detained hundreds of migrants who were not taxable to mandatory detention oregon last removal orders, a nonstop usurpation of a 2021 Biden-era decree inherited by the Trump administration.

In the ruling, Cummings accused DHS of holding migrants successful "unsafe and unsanitary" conditions, saying detainees had been kept successful overcrowded facilities "next to overflowing toilets." The justice further said the department’s caller reversal connected detention authorization represented a "180-degree change" from erstwhile ineligible interpretations.

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Over 600 amerciable immigrants person been ordered to beryllium released by a national justice from an Illinois ICE facility. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images)

The determination could unit the largest single-day merchandise of ICE detainees successful Illinois successful years, freeing hundreds arrested during "Operation Midway Blitz", a Trump enforcement expanse that migration activists assertion traumatized communities crossed the Chicago area.

"Today was a bully time arsenic the tribunal ordered the contiguous merchandise of 13 radical who person been wrongfully arrested and detained by national migration officials," said Michelle Garcia, lawman ineligible manager astatine the ACLU of Illinois. "More than 600 others whitethorn soon locomotion escaped arsenic the tribunal enforces our statement with the national authorities — a measurement toward accountability for years of unlawful arrests."

Police instrumentality 2 radical into custody, arsenic teardrop state fills the aerial aft it was utilized by national instrumentality enforcement agents who were being confronted by assemblage members and activists for reportedly shooting a pistillate successful the Brighton Park vicinity connected October 4, 2025 successful Broadview, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

"At each turn, activistic judges, sanctuary politicians, and convulsive rioters person actively tried to forestall our instrumentality enforcement officers from arresting and removing the worst of the worst," Tricia McLaughlin, adjunct caput for Public Affairs astatine DHS, told Fox News Digital.

"Now an activistic justice is putting the lives of Americans straight astatine hazard by ordering 615 amerciable aliens beryllium released into the community."

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Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse successful Chicago connected October 28. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Cummings has ordered DHS to place detainees considered "high nationalist information risks" who whitethorn stay successful custody and to record a compliance study by Nov. 24.