An appellate court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration does not have to release by Friday more than 600 immigrants on bond after arresting them without warrants, some as part of the Chicago-area “Operation Midway Blitz.”
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed a lower court order requiring the government to release 13 detained immigrants without bond by noon Nov. 14 and another 615 on a $1,500 bond by Nov. 21. The Trump administration released at least 12 of the 13 immigrants the lower court ordered to be let go, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois told NOTUS earlier this week.
The court didn’t provide an explanation for its decision to stay the release of the immigrants pending a further decision. There is a hearing scheduled for Dec. 2.