Judges Bypass Pro-Trump Immigration Rulings

Activist judges in Texas and beyond use legal workarounds to ignore the 5th Circuit's ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy for illegal immigrants. Judges like El Paso-based Kathleen Cardone, a Bush appointee, and David Briones, a Clinton pick, claim the decision has no bearing on their habeas cases, freeing detainees despite established connections to the U.S. Even a Trump-appointed judge in Brownsville seeks updates, while a Biden judge in New Jersey dismisses the ruling outright.