Federal judge blocks immigration attacks in certain churches

The Coalition of religious groups has successfully stopped new rules under Trump’s administration that enabled federal officials to enter the worship houses to implement immigration laws.
In response to a lawsuit of the Quaker, Baptist and Sikh Congregation, a federal judge who appointed Obama in Maryland, he ordered the Trump administration to be returned to the rules of Biden on Monday, which regulate the implementation of immigration at the locations where prosecutors adored. However, the judge’s command does not apply to all places of worship across the country, and does not apply to situations that include an order.
A few hours after President Donald Trump She assumed his duty last month, his administration abolished the directive published by former President Joe Biden, who banned the action of conducting immigration in or near certain “sensitive” areas, such as churches and schools.
Ice agents, together with other federal law agencies, participate in a meeting before implementing in Chicago on January 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Coalition of religious groups, representing 1,400 Baptist churches, the Sikh Temple in California, which served approximately 30,000, and six meetings of Quakers located up and down on the eastern coast, sued Trump for his directive about the first amendment on the first amendment Their rights to the first amendment for freedom of gathering. The groups said that new permissions created a cold effect that prevented the congregations, even those who are legal citizens, to attend The services of worship.
“A significant burden that [Trump administration] Politics is far from the speculative and already happening, “wrote US District Judge Theodore Chuang in her 59 -page view.” Politics 2025 will significantly affect the expressive prosecutor’s association by removing any significant limitations in the bailiffs in the places of worship by the officers for the implementation of armed laws. “
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Efforts to reach Homeland Security Department were unsuccessful at the time of the press. But according to Chuang, Trump’s administration argued that the alleged cold effect caused by his new directive is not “objectively reasonable”, because only reiterates that officials do discretion when implementing immigration laws in certain “sensitive” areas, but they do not require them.
Authorities in Boston have repeatedly stated that they would refuse to cooperate with the policies of the immigration of Trump’s administration. (John Moore/Getty Images)
In response to these DHS claims, Chuang cited the statement of Trump’s administration in which it is stated: “Criminals will no longer be able to hide in American schools and churches to avoid arrest,” in the announcement of a policy change. Chuang also cited media reports that describe Trump’s new directive as something that “free [federal agents] Enter after several illegal immigrants, “and said that the reactions of the Congregants are reasonable in the light of these narratives and other news of ICE, who detained legal citizens in their efforts to impose immigration.
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Chuang added that, given the openness of the prosecutor about the service of immigrant communities, it would be reasonable to expect DHS to direct their executive actions in the prosecutor’s congregations.