U.S. District Court Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín in California’s northern district said Tuesday that the government potentially violated its obligations to protect children from human trafficking, according to the Times’ reporting.
Furious over nationwide injunctions, Congressional Republicans are seeking to limit the impact of the federal judiciary.
ICE agents took Turkish Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk into custody near Tufts, revoked her visa and moved her to a detention center in Louisiana last week.
A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily restore funding for programs that provide legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
The Trump administration has fired back at a federal judge in San Francisco who stopped it from revoking deportation protections this month for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida and other states, saying the judge has no authority to block the decision and that it should be addressed on an emergency basis by a higher appeals court.
A federal judge in Boston denied a request Tuesday to block the Trump administration's plan to end temporary protected status for Venuezuelans, noting that a judge in California had already halted the plan on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper for the district of Massachusetts ordered Friday evening that Tufts doctoral student, Rümeysa Öztürk, not be removed from the country unless otherwise ordered by the court.