State of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul sue to halt ICE surge into Minnesota

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Third American death linked to ICE crackdown uncovered by Newsweek

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Texas grand jury won’t indict in 2025 fatal shooting of U.S. citizen by ICE agent​

On Saturday, Joshua Orta, the only passenger in the vehicle during Martinez’s shooting, died in an auto accident in San Antonio, according to the Associated Press. Police said the vehicle Orta was driving left the road and struck a utility pole at a high rate of speed. His passengers survived the fiery crash.

According to a draft of Orta’s affidavit obtained by the AP, Orta said Martinez “did not hit anyone” with his vehicle.

It’s unclear whether the jury was shown Orta’s affidavit, according to Martinez’s attorneys.

“And we do not know if they were shown video of an ICE agent dragging Ruben onto the ground and handcuffing him immediately after shooting him three times,” they said.

“We believe that it is essential now that the Texas Department of Public Safety publicly disclose the full findings of their investigation, so that Ruben’s family and the public can determine for themselves whether ICE’s story is accurate and why Ruben was killed that night,” their statement also said.

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Minnesota’s chief judge, a veteran in conservative legal circles, takes on ICE​

“Judge Patrick J. Schiltz...

At Notre Dame, Schiltz taught Amy Coney (now Barrett) as a student, later recommending her for her own clerkship with Scalia.

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‘ICE will comply [or else]’: Top Minnesota judge threatens criminal contempt for continued defiance​

Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz wrote that Justice officials were continuing to violate court orders at a historic clip amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.

“This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt,” said Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in a message posted on the docket of an immigration case he is presiding over. “One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court’s orders.”

“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders,” Schiltz said.

For Schiltz, the letter was a follow-up to one he sent in January, accusing the Trump administration of defying more than 90 court orders that month, which he estimated at the time was more than many agencies had broken in their entire existence.

The letter came in a week in which other federal judges around the country had expressed similar alarm, frustration and fury over the administration’s conduct. Texas-based Judge Kathleen Cardone described a “worrying trend” of missed deadlines by Trump administration officials handling immigration cases. Judge Irene Berger of West Virginia lit into the administration for a general “lack of respect for the law,” which she said was compounded by “sloppiness” in its filings; officials said an ICE detainee had been convicted of marijuana possession in 2009 — when records showed he was four years old.