Attorneys representing more than 600 ICE detainees are expected back in court next week to argue before an appellate court that their clients should be released.

The hearing follows a ruling by Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings earlier this month, who found that hundreds of ICE detainees should be released from custody because ICE agents violated the terms of a 2022 consent decree that set firm boundaries on ICE agents’ use of “warrantless” arrests.

In court filings, ICE asserted that the terms of the consent decree had expired in June.

But Judge Cummings’ ruling stated otherwise.

In his 52-page order issued in early October, Cummings found that ICE had violated the terms of the consent agreement by making “warrantless” arrests throughout 2025 – including in “Operation Midway Blitz.”

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