'Fucking Insane': Journalist Finds at Least 2,300 Illegal ICE Detentions Since July

"In yet another display of the Trump administration’s disregard for the US Constitution, there have been at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled that immigration officials illegally detained people without bond or due process since just July, according to one journalist."

"Politico reporter Kyle Cheney shared some of the cases he’s tracked in a thread on the social media platform X late Saturday. 'This is one that stands out,' he said of Sonik Manaserian, an Iranian woman of Armenian ethnicity who is a member of the Baha’i faith."

"According to an order out of the Central District of California in Manaserian’s case, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 'arrested a chronically ill, 70-year-old woman, who came to this country to avoid religious persecution and applied for asylum, who has lived here peacefully for 26 years and complied with all check-in requirements and other conditions of release, who has no known criminal record and poses no threat to anyone, without notice or the process required by their own regulations and without any plan for removing her from this country, then kept her in detention for months without sufficient medical care—and they do not have any argument to offer to even try to justify these actions.' "

"Cheney’s thread came just hours after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fatally shot legal observer and nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, less than three weeks after ICE officer Jonathan Ross similarly killed Renee Good in Minnesota’s largest city."

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