Federal law enforcement officers walk backwards into a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon, on October 6, 2025. Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
Portland, Oregon (AP) — US immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there’s a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai issued a preliminary injunction in a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of arresting immigrants they happen to come across while conducting ramped-up enforcement operations — which critics have described as “arrest first, justify later.”
Similar actions, including immigration agents entering private property without a warrant issued by a court, have drawn concern from civil rights groups across the country amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.