Court ruling means Minnesota immigrants sent to Texas may have little chance of returning
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune via MSN.com
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MINNEAPOLIS — A recent federal appeals court ruling means immigrants detained in Minnesota and sent to Texas won’t be released on bond — for now.
Thousands of immigrants detained during the monthslong Operation Metro Surge have been sent to Texas detention facilities. While the surge in immigration enforcement is expected to end soon, the spike in arrests means many immigrants are sent away before they have a chance to talk to an attorney or have an initial hearing at the Fort Snelling Immigration Court.
The Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans upheld the Trump administration’s policy that anyone who entered the U.S. without permission is not eligible for bond. The Fifth Circuit’s Feb. 6 decision covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, states that are home to some of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s largest detention facilities.
A young man from the Twin Cities in the process of applying for asylum, who asked not to be identified because he fears reprisal, told the Minnesota Star Tribune he was held at a Texas detention facility in unsanitary conditions with no privacy to shower or use the bathroom. He said more than 60 people were crammed into a cell, toilets routinely overflowed and he had to sleep curled up on the floor without a blanket.
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"The decision upends 30 years of legal precedent"
“We are really at a disadvantage when people are sent out of state and are in another jurisdiction,”
That's the whole idea of ICE/CBP sending people out of state within 24 hours to another jurisdiction before the local (Minnesota) legal system has time to react
"Meanwhile, a steady flow of detainees is moving through the Whipple Federal Building to Texas."
Re: the Texas facilities, besides what's in the excerpt above, detainees were held in cells that were freezing without blankets."
