US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
A federal judge in California on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making arrests at immigration courts across the United States.
Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Homeland Security agents have adopted the tactic of waiting outside immigration courts nationwide and arresting migrants as they leave at the end of asylum hearings.
Missing an immigration court hearing is a crime in some cases and can itself make migrants liable to be deported, leaving many with little choice but to attend and face arrest.
US District Judge P. Casey Pitts ruled that the policy violated the Administrative Procedure Act and called it “arbitrary and capricious.”
