Washington – A federal judge on Friday refused to block the immigration agents from conducting enforcement in the houses of worship in the case filed by religious groups on a new policy adopted by the Trump administration.
US District Judge Dabni Frederick in Washington ruled in a trial filed by more than two dozen Christians and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans.
The judge found that some fists of such enforcement operations were having some fists and religions did not show the kind of legal disadvantages that would make an initial prohibition correct.
“At least at this turn and on this record, the plaintiff has shown the requisite of the ‘reliable danger’ of the enforcement,” Frederick wrote, which was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term. “And neither the current record suggests that places of worship are being excluded as special goals.”
On January 20, his first day in the office, Trump’s Republican administration limited a department of the Homeland Security Policy, where migrant arrests could occur. Its new policy stated that field agents using “general knowledge” and “conscience” can conduct immigration enforcement operations in homes of worship without the approval of the supervisor.
The lawyers of the plaintiff claimed that the government’s 30 -year policy against the staging of immigration enforcement works in “protected areas” or “sensitive places”.
In February, a federal judge in Maryland ruled against the Trump administration in a similar case brought by a coalition of quakers and other religious groups. The order of US District Judge Theodore Chang in that case was limited to those plaintiffs.
In Colorado, a judge biased with the administration in another lawsuit when a uniform policy was reversed, with limited immigration arrest in schools.
