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Federal Judge Extends ICE Warrantless-Arrest Limits, Orders Retraining and Reporting

The decision reinforces constitutional limits by ordering retraining, policy reissuance, and monthly disclosures.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino leads detainees into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 27, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)

Overview

  • U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings extended the 2022 Castañon Nava consent decree to February 2, 2026.
  • The court granted relief for 22 people arrested without warrants in early 2025, including 11 in the Chicago area and 11 from a Liberty, Missouri raid, lifting all conditions of release.
  • ICE must reissue the Nava Warrantless Arrest Policy nationwide and certify that officers who violated the decree have been retrained.
  • The judge ordered monthly transparency: ICE must provide names, A-numbers, and arrest records for warrantless arrests in the Northern District of Illinois since June and on a continuing basis.
  • Cummings faulted ICE for telling field offices the decree was canceled and ruled that issuing blank I-200 warrants in the field for collateral arrests lacked statutory and regulatory authority.