The Department of Homeland (DHS) slammed a federal judge in Louisiana Wednesday for ordering the release of four illegal immigrants, including ones with attempted murder and child sex crime convictions, from an ICE detention facility.
The four men all have disturbing rap sheets and have been released from ICE’s “Louisiana Lockup” at Angola Prison in accordance with the judge’s order, according to DHS.
“Judge John deGravelles, appointed by Barack Obama, released FOUR violent criminals back onto American communities, and unfortunately, the ramifications will only be the continued rape, murder, assault, and robbery of more American victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The released individuals are:
Ibrahim Ali Mohammed, an Ethiopian national who was issued a final order of removal in September of 2024 and has a previous conviction for sexual exploitation of a minor, according to DHS.
Luis Gaston-Sanchez, described by the DHS as an illegal immigrant from Cuba with convictions for homicide, assault, resisting an officer, concealing stolen property and two counts of robbery, who had been issued his final order of removal in September 2001. --->READ MORE HERE
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A judge found that the federal government was indefinitely holding the four men in “Camp 57,” the immigration facility at Angola also known as “Louisiana Lockup,” in violation of their constitutional rights.
Four immigrant men held inside “Camp 57” a recently opened federal immigration lockup located at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — were released from the facility to rejoin their families after a federal judge last week found their continued incarceration unconstitutional.
The men — three from Cuba and one from Ethiopia — were ordered released Friday (Feb. 6) after U.S. District Judge John deGravelles of Baton Rouge determined that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had unlawfully detained them indefinitely, without any plans for their deportations in the “reasonably foreseeable future.”
Between their months at Camp 57 and prior stints in immigration detention, each of the men had been detained for more than six months, which is generally the limit under federal law, deGravelles ruled.
“Noncitizens, even those who have been ordered removed from the country, are protected by the constitution,” Judge John W. deGravelles said in a written order issued Friday granting the men release under the writ of habeas corpus. “The Government may not execute removal proceedings in violation of due process. … Nor may it execute removals in violation of its own regulations.”
The four men released on Friday were some of the first to be detained at Camp 57, also known as “Louisiana Lockup,” a former solitary confinement unit at Angola reopened in September to house federal immigration detainees under the orders of Gov. Jeff Landry, an immigration hardliner and ally of President Donald Trump. Landry opened the unit several months after conservative Gov. Ron DeSantis opened his own state-run immigration detention facility, called “Alligator Alcatraz,” in Florida.
The men ordered released from Camp 57 had been publicly identified by ICE in a press release as being among the “worst of the worst” among the agency’s immigrant targets, meaning they had previous criminal convictions. In at least three of the four cases, the ICE press release overstated the seriousness of their criminal convictions.
Though it’s true that all four had served time in prison, they had all previously been determined, after ICE screenings, to present no danger to their communities. They had all been released under orders of supervision (OSUP) that required them to check in with ICE at designated times. ICE agents picked up three of the four at the very check-in meetings they were ordered to attend, according to court filings.
Since Trump’s second term began last year, the administration has pressured immigration agents to drastically increase the number of people they detained, with a reported goal of 3,000 daily immigration arrests across the country, nearly 10 times the number arrested during 2024, former President Joe Biden’s last year in office. As a result, ICE agents have made arrests in places and at times — including during ICE check-ins — they had generally avoided in the past. --->READ MORE HERE
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