'Crazy loophole' exposed that keeps migrants locked up based on which judge they get
A lawyer is sounding the alarm on a "crazy loophole" in a law that allows judges to keep migrants jailed while other judges have ruled the law shouldn't apply.
"This is not a procedural quirk. It is a betrayal of the foundational promise of American law: that the rules apply equally to everyone," lawyer Alexander Urbelis wrote for Slate on Tuesday. "That is not justice. That is a lottery."
Urbelis described two incidents in which he represented a migrant detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One was about to get out of jail in four days because Urbelis got him in front of a judge who had already ruled against a legal question of whether ICE can detain someone under a statute that "Congress never intended to apply to people already living in the United States," Urbelis wrote. ...