As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests continue to soar across the country, federal judges in San Francisco are rebuking the agency over due process concerns and have ordered the release – at least temporarily – of dozens of immigrants being held in detention facilities across California and beyond.

The judges’ orders come in response to a wave of legal filings from attorneys representing immigrants being held in ICE detention – called “petitions for writ of habeas corpus” – arguing their clients are being illegally and indefinitely locked up without being afforded a pre-detention hearing in front of an immigration judge.

An NBC Bay Area review of 24 Habeas cases filed in the Bay Area’s federal court district – involving 37 separate immigrants detained by ICE in recent

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