ICE agents 'knowingly and unlawfully' violated tortured man's 'due process rights' on multiple occasions, judge says

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 21st, 2026, 10:34 am


A federal judge in Nevada took the Trump administration to task for imposing onerous and "coercive" release conditions on an immigrant who was tortured in his home country and is seeking asylum.

A three-page order enforcing the judgment comes as the latest judicial salvo against the new detention regime proposed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Since last summer, hundreds of district court judges have rejected efforts to reshape how ICE classifies immigrants so as to detain them indefinitely.

In the present case, petitioner Kevin Eliel Aguirre Solis previously convinced U.S. District Judge Richard Franklin Boulware II, a Barack Obama appointee, to grant him "immediate release from custody" due to "the government's violation of his due process rights."

Since the man's release from detention, however, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has engaged in bad behavior, the court found. That behavior is the source of the latest hard-charging order.

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