I didn't say the app was an automatic entry pass, I said people were allowed entry into the US that had used the app.As for CBP One, you are again misrepresenting the process.
The app was not an automatic-entry pass. It was a scheduling tool used to arrange appointments for processing and asylum claims at ports of entry.
Using the app no more "guaranteed admission" than using Calendly guarantees you a job offer. It scheduled the appointment; the claim still had to be evaluated through the legal process.
Under US President Joe Biden, individuals who registered for an appointment with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were preliminarily vetted and granted temporary legal status in the US as their asylum cases were adjudicated.
Trump to again end legal status of people who entered US with CBP One app
Judge had previously blocked move to end temporary legal status for those who entered US via Biden-era application.
You keep responding as though I claimed "ICE detainers are inherently unconstitutional."
I did not.
What I said is that ICE detainers alone are often insufficient legal basis to continue holding someone after lawful state/local custody ends.
That distinction matters.
An ICE detainer is a request from ICE asking a local jail to continue holding someone so ICE can assume custody. Courts have repeatedly ruled that if a jail holds someone past their lawful release time solely because of that request, without independent probable cause or a judicial warrant, that can violate the Fourth Amendment.
That is not a fringe claim. It is established caselaw.
Examples include:
Miranda-Olivares v. Clarkamas County: continued detention solely on an ICE detainer violated the Fourth Amendment.
Galarza v. Szalczyk: ICE detainers are requests, not mandatory commands, and local jurisdictions can be liable for unlawful detention if they honor them without lawful basis.
Morales v. Chadbourne: detention based solely on an ICE detainer violated constitutional protections against unreasonable seizure.
Lunn v. Commonwealth: Massachusetts officers lacked authority to arrest solely on the basis of a civil ICE detainer.
And those are only a few examples:
So to reiterate: no, sanctuary jurisdictions are not “releasing criminals early just because they hate ICE.”
In many of these cases, the person had already:
The legal issue is whether the jail may continue detaining them after that point solely because ICE asked them to.
- completed their sentence,
- posted bail,
- had charges dropped,
or- otherwise reached the point where state/local law required release.
And courts have repeatedly said: not without sufficient legal authority.
ICE doesn't use the judicial branch at all so asking them to have a judicial warrant to have people detained is not something they can do. ICE should be able to have people detained that are to be deported, that only makes sense so you don't need to another possible law enforcement interaction that could go poorly and endanger people. Either the current process is in accordance with constitutional rights (heard by SCOTUS) and if not, then the actual Immigration Act that created ICE needs to be reworked then.Right, so a government agency issuing something unconstitutional is a thing.
As Asita says, issuing a detainer is not unconstitutional. But keeping someone incarcerated once all legal reasons to detain them have expired would be unconstitutional. And a detainer isn't a legal reason to keep someone incarcerated.