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A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated a federal consent decree by making warrantless arrests this year. The judge extended the decree until February and left the door open for the release of dozens of undocumented immigrants detained without a warrant in recent weeks.

The ruling came the same day Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Trump’s orders. That’s despite a federal judge scheduling a Thursday hearing to consider the legality of the troop deployment.

Judicial scrutiny of the Trump administration intensified in other courts as well, with a grand jury declining to indict two people who were arrested while protesting ICE in Broadview.

Amid scrutiny of ICE’s narrative, another federal judge ordered the pret

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