DOJ says it erroneously relied on ICE memo to justify immigration courthouse arrests [View all]

Source: NBC News

March 25, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT


The Trump administration admitted in a court filing that it had erroneously relied on an ICE memo to justify arrests at immigration courthouses as part of an ongoing federal case brought by groups seeking to block the tactic.

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they had used the memo, titled “2025 ICE Guidance,” to defend the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE agents at courthouses, which led to numerous arrests of immigrants attending hearings.

The memo indicated that "ICE officers or agents may conduct civil immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses when they have credible information" that a targeted person would be "present at a specific location.”

But, the Justice Department said in the court filing, the memo “does not and has never applied to civil immigration enforcement actions in or near” immigration courts.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/doj-says-erroneously-relied-ice-memo-justify-immigration-courthouse-ar-rcna265206

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A WHOLE FUCKING YEAR of a NIGHTMARE imposed on desperate people who were were FOLLOWING THE RULES by showing up to their immigration court appearances. But instead, like this country has done for CENTURIES against POC, THE RULES CHANGE, and people were body-slammed against walls and to the ground, kneed and handcuffed, dragged out of those courthouses, thrown into $100K each tricked-out vehicles, hauled off to concentration camps with inadequate food, bedding, toilet facilities or even medical care, then shoved onto planes, and drop-kicked in countries they had never been to.