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30-04-2025
- Yahoo
Former ICE director explains how detainee processing works
DENVER (KDVR) — FOX31 is now learning that 105 people were detained at an underground nightclub bust in Colorado Springs over the weekend. That's down from the original reported count of 114. The Drug Enforcement Administration said 9 people had previous contact with immigration officials. Law enforcement, local leaders react to underground nightclub bust The Colorado Springs Police Department told FOX31 that two people were arrested on existing warrants. One was arrested for a warrant out of Denver for assault, criminal mischief, and child abuse. The other was wanted in Adams County for a misdemeanor. John Fabbricatore, former ICE Regional Director, told FOX31 that when there are that many people in custody, the process can take a while, and it really matters where people are going. He said that processing one single person with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, if it's the first time they've encountered them, can take up to two hours. If ICE is familiar with them and their information is already in the system, that process can be much shorter. 'Number one, an operation like that is in the works for many months,' said Fabbricatore. 'It was very professionally done. It looked like it was great collaboration and cooperation between multiple law enforcement agencies, multiple federal and county agencies.' He said that for many of the detainees, if they only went into ICE custody with an immigration violation, they would be processed through. 'Their fingerprints would be taken. They'd be processed. Their biography, we call it biometric information, would be taken. They would be given an I-200, which is a warrant of their arrest. Arrested on immigration charges,' said Fabbricatore. 'They will be issued a notice to appear before an immigration judge. They would have a bond determination to determine whether they were bondable out from ICE custody, and then they would be placed in detention.' Fabbricatore said that for those who have criminal charges, the process would look different. The detainees would be transferred over to federal authorities. 'Transferred over to the U.S. Marshals and indicted on those charges. Some of them may have gone to local custody. They may have had local warrants or if they were found with drugs in their possession at the time of arrest, potentially the county could have taken them into custody,' said Fabbricatore. 'So, there were definitely different pathways that people took that night to get in custody.' FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox He went on to say that anytime someone is illegally present in the U.S. and taken into ICE custody, they will be processed for immigration violations at a minimum. For others, it could take time for an indictment to come down, especially when dealing with weapons, drugs and sex trafficking charges. Meanwhile, several active duty members of the military were also taken into custody. FOX31 emailed military officials and is still waiting for a response on what happens next. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
24-04-2025
- Politics
ICE did not have warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil: Court filing
Government lawyers say officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) did not have a warrant for Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil's arrest when they took him into custody last month, according to a filing submitted in the case. Khalil's lawyers say the admission contradicts what officers told Khalil and his lawyers at the time of his arrest and in a subsequent arrest report. In the filing, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security said Khalil, a green card holder and permanent legal resident, was served with a warrant once he was brought into an ICE office in New York after his arrest. The officers "had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest, it is the pattern and practice of DHS to fully process a respondent once in custody with an I-200 (warrant) as part of that intake processing," government lawyers wrote. DHS claimed its officers were not required to obtain a warrant for Khalil's arrest, in part, because they had reasons to believe it was likely "he would escape before they could obtain a warrant." In the filing, DHS attorneys said agents approached Khalil inside the foyer of his Columbia-owned apartment building and claimed that, while his wife went to retrieve his identification, Khalil told them he was going to leave the scene. "The HSI supervisory agent believed there was a flight risk and arrest was necessary," the filing stated. Khalil's lawyers have pushed back on the claim that he was uncooperative with authorities. In a sworn declaration submitted in court last month, attorney Amy Greer, who was on the phone with Khalil's wife at the time of his arrest, said an agent at the scene told her they had an administrative warrant. "I asked the basis of the warrant, and he said the U.S. Department of State revoked Mahmoud's student visa," Greer said. "When I told Agent Hernandez that Mahmoud does not have a student visa because he is a green card holder and permanent resident in the U.S., he said DHS revoked the green card, too," she wrote in the declaration. Khalil's lawyers say the warrantless arrest is one of the reasons he should be released. "That night, I was on the phone with Mahmoud, Noor, and even the arresting agent," Greer said in a statement. "In the face of multiple agents in plain clothes who clearly intended to abduct him, and despite the fact that those agents repeatedly failed to show us a warrant, Mahmoud remained calm and complied with their orders. Today we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant - they didn't have one. The statement went on to say: "This is clearly yet another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to justify its unlawful arrest and detention of human rights defender Mahmoud Khalil, who is now, by the government's own tacit admission, a political prisoner of the United States." An immigration judge earlier this month ruled that Khalil, a leader of Columbia's encampment protests in the spring of 2024, could be deported on grounds that he threatens foreign policy, as alleged by the Trump administration.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Politics
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ICE did not have warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil: Court filing
Government lawyers say officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) did not have a warrant for Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil's arrest when they took him into custody last month, according to a filing submitted in the case. Khalil's lawyers say the admission contradicts what officers told Khalil and his lawyers at the time of his arrest and in a subsequent arrest report. In the filing, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security said Khalil, a green card holder and permanent legal resident, was served with a warrant once he was brought into an ICE office in New York after his arrest. MORE: Columbia University associate of Mahmoud Khalil arrested by DHS The officers "had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest, it is the pattern and practice of DHS to fully process a respondent once in custody with an I-200 (warrant) as part of that intake processing," government lawyers wrote. DHS claimed its officers were not required to obtain a warrant for Khalil's arrest, in part, because they had reasons to believe it was likely "he would escape before they could obtain a warrant." In the filing, DHS attorneys said agents approached Khalil inside the foyer of his Columbia-owned apartment building and claimed that, while his wife went to retrieve his identification, Khalil told them he was going to leave the scene. "The HSI supervisory agent believed there was a flight risk and arrest was necessary," the filing stated. Khalil's lawyers have pushed back on the claim that he was uncooperative with authorities. In a sworn declaration submitted in court last month, attorney Amy Greer, who was on the phone with Khalil's wife at the time of his arrest, said an agent at the scene told her they had an administrative warrant. "I asked the basis of the warrant, and he said the U.S. Department of State revoked Mahmoud's student visa," Greer said. "When I told Agent Hernandez that Mahmoud does not have a student visa because he is a green card holder and permanent resident in the U.S., he said DHS revoked the green card, too," she wrote in the declaration. MORE: Columbia University associate of Mahmoud Khalil arrested by DHS Khalil's lawyers say the warrantless arrest is one of the reasons he should be released. "That night, I was on the phone with Mahmoud, Noor, and even the arresting agent," Greer said in a statement. "In the face of multiple agents in plain clothes who clearly intended to abduct him, and despite the fact that those agents repeatedly failed to show us a warrant, Mahmoud remained calm and complied with their orders. Today we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant - they didn't have one. The statement went on to say: "This is clearly yet another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to justify its unlawful arrest and detention of human rights defender Mahmoud Khalil, who is now, by the government's own tacit admission, a political prisoner of the United States." An immigration judge earlier this month ruled that Khalil, a leader of Columbia's encampment protests in the spring of 2024, could be deported on grounds that he threatens foreign policy, as alleged by the Trump administration. ICE did not have warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil: Court filing originally appeared on
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE did not have warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil: Court filing
Government lawyers say officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) did not have a warrant for Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil's arrest when they took him into custody last month, according to a filing submitted in the case. Khalil's lawyers say the admission contradicts what officers told Khalil and his lawyers at the time of his arrest and in a subsequent arrest report. In the filing, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security said Khalil, a green card holder and permanent legal resident, was served with a warrant once he was brought into an ICE office in New York after his arrest. MORE: Columbia University associate of Mahmoud Khalil arrested by DHS The officers "had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest, it is the pattern and practice of DHS to fully process a respondent once in custody with an I-200 (warrant) as part of that intake processing," government lawyers wrote. DHS claimed its officers were not required to obtain a warrant for Khalil's arrest, in part, because they had reasons to believe it was likely "he would escape before they could obtain a warrant." In the filing, DHS attorneys said agents approached Khalil inside the foyer of his Columbia-owned apartment building and claimed that, while his wife went to retrieve his identification, Khalil told them he was going to leave the scene. "The HSI supervisory agent believed there was a flight risk and arrest was necessary," the filing stated. Khalil's lawyers have pushed back on the claim that he was uncooperative with authorities. In a sworn declaration submitted in court last month, attorney Amy Greer, who was on the phone with Khalil's wife at the time of his arrest, said an agent at the scene told her they had an administrative warrant. "I asked the basis of the warrant, and he said the U.S. Department of State revoked Mahmoud's student visa," Greer said. "When I told Agent Hernandez that Mahmoud does not have a student visa because he is a green card holder and permanent resident in the U.S., he said DHS revoked the green card, too," she wrote in the declaration. MORE: Columbia University associate of Mahmoud Khalil arrested by DHS Khalil's lawyers say the warrantless arrest is one of the reasons he should be released. "That night, I was on the phone with Mahmoud, Noor, and even the arresting agent," Greer said in a statement. "In the face of multiple agents in plain clothes who clearly intended to abduct him, and despite the fact that those agents repeatedly failed to show us a warrant, Mahmoud remained calm and complied with their orders. Today we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant - they didn't have one. The statement went on to say: "This is clearly yet another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to justify its unlawful arrest and detention of human rights defender Mahmoud Khalil, who is now, by the government's own tacit admission, a political prisoner of the United States." An immigration judge earlier this month ruled that Khalil, a leader of Columbia's encampment protests in the spring of 2024, could be deported on grounds that he threatens foreign policy, as alleged by the Trump administration. ICE did not have warrant when agents detained Mahmoud Khalil: Court filing originally appeared on
