Hundreds of judges have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, but ICE agents continue to jail people illegally notes Reuters:
In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign, Reuters found.
Despite the obvious violations of US law by ICE agents, Trump’s policies are strongly supported by most white Christians, reported the Public Religion Research Institute:
Religion shapes views on immigration policies, with white Christians being more supportive of most of Trump’s immigration agenda than Christians of color, members of minority faith traditions, and the religiously unaffiliated.
White evangelical Protestants hold the most consistently conservative positions on immigration policies: just 39% agree that immigrants, regardless of legal status, should have basic rights and protections, and 34% agree that ICE officers should not be allowed to conceal their identities; 57% agree that undocumented immigrants who have resided in the U.S. with no criminal record should be arrested and detained.
(Sources: Reuters, Public Religion Research Institute)