Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.

[propublica@newsie.social]

Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.

The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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[yoshi@toot.community]

@ProPublica Sounds like a good way to fight back by weaponizing the same system MAGAmoron is turning against Americans.

[mrbranch40@mastodon.world]

@ProPublica

Is there a way to help the judges, attorneys and assistants to clear the backlog?

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@ProPublica There needs to be kidnapping charges, assault charges, and terroristic threatening charges along with those wrongful imprisonment charges.