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  1. A federal judge has accused the #Trump administration of
    ⚠️terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law
    in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.

    Citing the deaths of Renee #Good and Alex #Pretti in #Minnesota,
    the judge said that the White House had also⚠️ “extended its violence on its own citizens.”
    “The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation,”
    U.S. District Judge #Sunshine #Sykes in Riverside, California said in a scathing decision issued late Wednesday.
    💥Sykes said the administration had violated her December ruling that found it was illegally denying many detained immigrants a chance for release.

    💥She ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide them with notice that they may be eligible for bond and then give them access to a phone to call an attorney within an hour.

    💥She also threw out a September ruling by an immigration court that the administration had cited for continuing its mandatory detention policy.

    The White House referred comment Thursday to the Homeland Security department. -- The department said in a statement that the Supreme Court had “repeatedly overruled” lower courts on the issue of mandatory detention.

    apnews.com/article/immigration