Heeding the headlines pointing to Stephen Miller’s Mass Deportions Campaign IS costing Trump and Republicans polling numbers and probably the House and even the Seante along with Trump’s War?
And the intense media focus in ICE and CBP shooting’s…..
Oh?
And the Lousy Economy?
Kristi Hoem got removed…..
The new guy Mullins and the fireman Homan seem to have the Ok from Trump to throttle back Miller’s heavy handed push on immigtion policy…
Miller also stands in the way of ANY Homeland Spending Bill passage by Senate Democrats…
As the Trump administration has scaled back its most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts, the torrent of emergency lawsuits mounted by ICE detainees has also begun to slow.
Courts have been flooded for months with petitions for habeas corpus — requests by ICE detainees to be released from custody or at least to have a chance to plead their cases. Habeas petitions are still arriving at astonishing levels, but have noticeably declined since the administration pulled back from its mega-enforcement operation in Minnesota.
A POLITICO analysis found that immigration habeas petitions peaked at about 300 to 400 per day from Jan. 16 to Feb. 17, at the height of Operation Metro Surge. It was in this timeframe — which includes the Jan. 24 shooting death of demonstrator Alex Pretti — when public opinion began to sour on the Trump administration’s mass deportation tactics.
Habeas petitions peaked at more than 400 on Feb. 6 but have since steadily declined, dipping below 300 per day late last month and approaching 200 per day by early March.
The decline in habeas cases tracks with a similar decline in immigration arrests reported by The New York Times, citing internal DHS data. That drop comes as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem prepares to leave her role after she was pushed aside amid frustration by the president. Trump aide Stephen Miller once suggested that the administration was hopeful to net 3,000 immigration arrests per day, a comment that drove a wave of lawsuits against Trump administration immigration policies and prompted denials from the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security….
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The drop in emergency litigation is sure to be welcome news to federal judges, whose dockets have been swamped by habeas cases and who have reached a boiling point with the Trump administration over routine violations of their orders. Judges have overwhelmingly ruled that the administration’s actions are illegal….
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All of this has released some tension/pressure on the Federal Courts, Justice Department and Legal Immigrants and paradoxly ICE agents…..
Heads still rollin ….
Greg Bovino to Retire
“Outspoken Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is retiring from federal service at the end of this month, after being pulled away from a high-profile role leading immigration raids in major U.S. cities,” CBS News reports.