‘Hold liars to account’: Judge urges drastic move to expose false ICE arrest accounts

Summary

A federal judge who caught an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in a lie over an arrest report is stressing the need to put agents on the witness stand to expose falsehoods that paperwork alone could conceal. “Evidentiary hearings are essential tools to ensure that a rigorous record of something closer to the truth is preserved, and to hold liars to account,” U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai wrote Monday. In a blistering 50-page opinion and order blasting Trump’s ICE, the federal judge found the agency repeatedly violated his injunction restricting unlawful warrantless arrests…

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