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A federal judge ruled Nov. 13 that hundreds of illegal immigrants held by ICE in Illinois may be released on bond and ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assess whether they pose any safety risk to the public.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the Northern District of Illinois issued the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.352901/gov.uscourts.ilnd.352901.247.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ruling</a> in response to a lawsuit <a href="https://immigrantjustice.org/press-release/federal-judge-in-chicago-orders-ice-to-release-hundreds-of-people-from-detention-centers-who-were-arrested-in-likely-violation-of-consent-decree/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">filed</a> by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois on behalf of people arrested during “Operation Midway Blitz,” a federal immigration enforcement targeting illegal immigrants.

Among the more than 3,000 illegal immigrants arrested between June and October, 615 individuals were not subject to mandatory detention and did not have final removal orders, the ruling states. The DHS had argued that all of those detained in the operation fell under mandatory detention.

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