U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings (Credit: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois)
Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings announced Wednesday that he plans to grant bond to hundreds of illegal aliens detained during ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” a crucial crackdown on criminal migrants and repeat border jumpers.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Cummings, installed by the failed Biden-Harris regime, ruled Wednesday that these invaders could walk free on a paltry $1,500 bond as long as they lack a prior criminal rap sheet or deportation order.
This outrageous decision reeks of judicial activism, undermining law enforcement and rewarding those who flout our borders.
The ruling stems from a leftist lawsuit claiming ICE violated a 2022 consent decree in the Castañon Nava case, which handcuffs agents from making warrantless arrests without jumping through bureaucratic hoops like proving “probable cause” of illegal status and flight risk.
Cummings, presiding in the Northern District of Illinois, ordered the DOJ to cough up a list by November 19 of the 615 detainees still in custody who might qualify as “class members” under this agreement.
Cummings also ordered the release of 13 individuals whom the plaintiffs identified as being unlawfully detained.
Attorneys said they expect the detainees to be freed within the next 48 hours, possibly as soon as today. All 13 will be released without bond.
Federal prosecutor William Weiland rightly blasted the move as “quite significant,” urging the court to stay the order.
At least 12 of these “detainees” are flagged as serious security threats, Weiland warned, demanding more time to vet them properly. But Cummings, ever the enabler, only granted a brief reprieve, ordering a status report by November 21.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Cummings, a product of the same administration that unleashed millions of unvetted migrants, last month confirmed ICE breached the decree during “Operation Blitz,” a nationwide sweep that nabbed over thousands of illegals, many with violent histories or multiple deportations.
Attorneys from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a left-wing activist group, argue that ICE’s arrests of more than 3,000 illegal aliens under “Operation Blitz” breached that agreement.
NIJC’s Mark Fleming said, “Our initial analysis is that it’s over 3,000 arrests. We’ve started to dig into the case file that they produced to us, and the vast majority are violations. If they did not have a prior order of removal, in almost all circumstances, they’ve been uniformly violating the consent decree.”
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