A federal judge called out the Trump administration in a new court order on Tuesday over a claim it made about someone detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Harmanjot Singh was arrested by ICE officers in December during a routine immigration check-up. He has since filed a motion for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing his deportation from the U.S., which the federal court in the Western District of Louisiana denied on Tuesday.
Buried in the order was a footnote that called out the administration's sloppiness in the case, Politico's Kyle Cheney reported.
"The Respondents did attach a document to their Response purporting to show minor convictions for marijuana possession in 2009," the footnote reads. "The petitioner was four years old at the time, and the Respondent indicated that the document was supplied by ICE and likely presumed to relate to the Petitioner because the individual had the same name, despite differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents' names and immigration status."
"This sloppiness further validates the court's concerns about the procedures utilized by the Respondents depriving people present in the United States of their liberty," it added.