A judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year.
The Trump administration's reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted “not from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of decision-making,” wrote U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Francisco. Authorities failed to address the “chilling effect” of arrests on whether people attend court hearings.
“For 80 years, Congress has commanded federal agencies to think before they act,” wrote Pitts, referring to the Administrative Procedure Act, a 1946 law that requires federal agencies to justify its actions. That law, he wrote, "does not require an agency to make the choice that a reviewing court might deem preferable. But it demands that an agency at least provide sound reasons for following its chosen course."
The ruling is the second setback for courthouse arrests since May when a federal judge in New York barred them at immigration courts. That order applied only in New York, while the latest decision invalidated the policy nationwide.
James Percival, the U.S. Homeland Security Department's general counsel, criticized the ruling as an exercise in judicial overreach.
“When a judge sentences a defendant, the defendant is taken into custody. If an alien is ordered removed by an immigration judge, the same should happen. A district judge ordering otherwise is naked judicial activism in service of an anti-American, open borders agenda,” Percival wrote online.
After Trump took office, hearings across the country often ended with cases being dismissed by the government, setting the stage for plainclothes agents to make arrests in hallways in coordination with attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security.
Pitts, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, faulted the administration for carrying out the arrests and for holding people in nearby cells for longer than a prescribed 12-hour limit.
FILE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pull a man out of an elevator as he and his daughter attempt to leave following a hearing in immigration court, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova,File)
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 24, 2026--
Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced the EMEA winners of its FY26 Boomi Customer Innovation Awards, at Boomi World Tour London, taking place 23–24 June 2026 at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London.
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Across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a new generation of organisations is redefining what it means to be a data-driven business. This year's EMEA Customer Innovation Award winners have done more than implement technology, they have fundamentally changed how their organisations operate, compete, and grow. Working with the Boomi Enterprise Platform, they have turned fragmented data into strategic advantage, replaced manual complexity with intelligent automation, and in many cases laid the groundwork for enterprises built to move faster, decide smarter, and act with confidence.
This year's EMEA Customer Innovation Award winners are:
“The organisations recognised haven't waited for transformation to happen to them, they've driven it, and gained competitive advantage. Whether that means activating data that was previously invisible to the business, tearing down the silos that slowed them down, or taking bold steps toward a fully agentic enterprise, each of these winners has made decisions that are delivering measurable results — setting the pace for their industries. The Boomi Enterprise Platform exists to make exactly this kind of transformation possible, and seeing our EMEA customers push the boundaries of what it can do is what drives us to keep innovating," said Adrian Trickett, GM, SVP EMEA, Boomi.
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Boomi Announces Its FY26 EMEA Customer Innovation Award Winners
