When I read the article my thought was to wonder if, give the overwork causing serious mistakes on the part of the Regime, the judge could order ICE/CBP to suspend all detentions and removals until such time as certain standards were met – all people currently in custody were tried, personnel numbers were raised to a given level, etc.
It is an easy argument to make that the current processes and procedures for selecting people for detention and removal is flawed as too many US citizens are being swept up or killed and too many court orders are being ignored. I would argue that a single citizen detained without due process or court order ignored is too many. I think non-citizens also deserve due process, but that is a harder argument to make to the conservatives.
This does not mean I think people whom law enforcement has evidence have committed crimes should be left on the street. Other law enforcement agencies can arrest them, and they can make their way through the criminal justice system. Which, for all its problems, is still far better than the broken ICE courts.
I doubt this could happen, but I wish it would.
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