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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have repeatedly violated a November court order requiring them to follow the law when making warrantless arrests in Colorado, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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In a 60-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote that ICE had continued making the arrests without first determining if an immigrant lacking permanent legal status was likely to flee. that is required by both federal law and Jackson\u2019s prior order restating ICE\u2019s obligations under that statute.<\/p>\n

Because the agency had \u201cfailed\u201d to train its agents properly, he ordered ICE officials in Denver to provide warrantless arrest guidance to all of the field office\u2019s deportation officers, who now number more than 200 in strength.<\/p>\n

Jackson found that ICE had \u201cuniformly\u201d failed to follow his order requiring better documentation of arrests. He ordered the agency to provide even more records so that he and the attorneys who sued ICE over its arrest practices last year could monitor its progress. ICE\u2019s failure to better document its arrest practices \u201cconfounds effective oversight,\u201d Jackson found.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Court issues an injunction, \u2018it\u2019s to be followed,\u2019 \u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

While ICE can conduct warrantless arrests, federal law \u2014 and Jackson\u2019s order \u2014 requires ICE agents to determine that an immigrant is both likely in the country illegally and is likely to flee before a future court date.<\/p>\n

The ruling comes nearly six months after Jackson first found that ICE wasn\u2019t following federal law. In late November, the judge sided with attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and two other law firms that had sued ICE last fall and ordered the agency to follow its own guidance and federal law.<\/p>\n

The ACLU and the other attorneys, who represented immigrants arrested by the agency, then alleged that ICE wasn\u2019t following Jackson\u2019s order. They pointed to several additional arrests, as well as a collection of ICE arrest reports that didn\u2019t document how ICE had reached a legal conclusion that an arrest was warranted.<\/p>\n

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As he did at the end of the hearing in March, Jackson criticized three agents who testified in his courtroom and who appeared to demonstrate little to no understanding of how to legally conduct warrantless arrests.<\/p>\n

The judge wrote that one agent had a \u201cshallow understanding\u201d of his order. He said that though senior ICE officials had made some attempts to provide guidance to their teams in Colorado, the problem was that deportation officers \u201cclearly do not know or understand\u201d what\u2019s required of them.<\/p>\n

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The ICE agents who testified appeared unaware of those requirements. At one point in the hearing, one agent sat silently for 30 seconds as he tried to recall what Jackson had already ordered him to do \u2014 until the judge finally intervened and told him he could just say he didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

In his latest ruling, Jackson required agency leaders to provide more training to deportation officers operating in the state and to give the attorneys suing the agency a running update on the implementation of that training. Any immigration agent who hasn\u2019t been trained on the order within 45 days will be prohibited from making warrantless arrests, he wrote, and any agents hired after the order are prohibited from making the arrests until they\u2019re trained.<\/p>\n

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He also ordered the agency to turn over a far larger batch of arrest reports and more details about those arrests. Though Jackson didn\u2019t wade into the legality of ICE\u2019s practice of issuing warrants in the field \u2014 oftentimes after agents have stopped someone \u2014 he did order agents to document when and how they obtain those field warrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout more robust compliance measures in place, they could resume violating (the prior order) with impunity,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPerhaps most importantly, the Denver Field Office has hired dozens of new officers since the (order) was issued and is likely to hire more. The evidence at the hearing did not instill confidence that these officers will be properly trained on the (order) and comply with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A message sent to ICE representatives was not immediately returned Tuesday morning. Hans Meyer, one of the attorneys who sued the agency, said he was still reviewing the order.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit \u2014 and subsequent attempts to enforce Jackson\u2019s order \u2014 come as ICE has dramatically increased its presence out of the Denver field office, which covers both Colorado and Wyoming. The number of deportation officers here has more than doubled to roughly 200, and immigration arrests in Colorado surged during President Donald Trump\u2019s first year in office.<\/p>\n

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