Fewer than half of illegal alien habeas corpus petitioners are being released from ICE custody, since an important 8th Circuit appeals court ruling in late March. Reportedly, during the height…
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to dig into the secret case files of dozens of illegal alien habeas corpus cases filed in federal court in Minnesota. The hidden files reveal…
Ahmed Said won’t be heading to Cameroon, at least not immediately. That was the upshot of a more-than-hour-long court hearing held this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
Richard Rodriguez Soriano was deported back to his native Nicaragua three weeks ago (May 7). Yesterday, May 27, there was a court hearing lasting for more than an hour at…
A contempt-of-court trap has been created by two federal judges issuing conflicting and irreconcilable orders on the same illegal alien on the same day. The executive branch cannot comply with…
Fox 9 reports, After ICE ‘overwhelmed’ federal courts, Chief Judge reflects on emotional toll The “emotional toll.” So you can forget about justice dispensed “without fear nor favor.” Judge Schiltz,…
Minnesota-based federal district court judges are now split on how to apply the recent appeals court ruling on illegal alien habeas corpus cases. The habeas cases seek the immediate release…
Another Minnesota federal district judge flouts appeals court ruling. In two habeas corpus cases this week, Judge Donavon Frank (Clinton appointee) has ruled in favor of two illegal alien ICE…
Minnesota-based federal judges are finding workarounds for their defeat at the appeals court-level in a recent habeas corpus case. Some 27 habeas corpus cases have been filed since March 25,…
It’s been ten days since the federal 8th circuit court of appeals issued a major immigration ruling, throwing out the unlawful legal theory used by local judges to free more…
It’s been two days since the 8th circuit court of appeals dropped its bombshell decision overturning the basis used for releasing more than a thousand illegal aliens in Minnesota under…
The case, decided by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, originated out of the Minnesota federal district. It was one of many such habeas corpus cases seeking the release of…
We hit 1,000 habeas corpus cases in Minnesota (for 2026) back on February 25. In the almost three weeks since, we have managed to inch up to only 1,081 (to…
Habeas corrigia. Although the filing of new habeas corpus cases has slowed to a trickle in federal court in Minnesota since Operation Metro Surge began winding down, the entire phenomenon…
Walter Acuna-Cruz is a Guatemalan citizen, now aged 21, and is an illegal alien in Minnesota now on his fourth habeas corpus case seeking release from ICE detention. I attended (via Zoom) a…
We have seen over 1,000 habeas corpus filings made in Minnesota since the beginning of the year. In the 50 “business” days of 2026, so far, that would work out…
It appears that the U.S. Department of Justice will be appealing that baseless contempt of court citation imposed by federal district Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden appointee). I covered the incident…
As federal immigration authorities draw Operation Metro Surge down to the usual enforcement levels, the filing of habeas corpus petitions has dropped dramatically. Over this past weekend (February 21-22), only…
Edgar Vinicio Pilamunga-Toalombo represents a rare cross-over case: an apparent illegal alien with one federal judge considering a habeas corpus petition for his release, with another federal judge having ordered…
Federal District Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden appointee) has found a government lawyer in contempt of court, imposing a $500-a-day fine, for not returning an illegal alien’s ID to him fast…
Junior de Jesus Herrera Berrios, aged just 18, is a popular man. We have not one but two separate habeas corpus petitions seeking his release from ICE custody. First, some…
Will the wind-down of Operation Metro Surge mean fewer new habeas corpus cases getting filed? We’ve hit the 900 mark in the number of habeas corpus cases being filed so…
Democratic federal judges are inventing new legal doctrines to free illegal aliens from ICE detention. From Politico, Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration’s mass…
Habeas corpus cases have soared past the 800 mark in Minnesota for 2026, so far, even as higher courts look to limit the practice. As of this afteroon, some 819…