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A federal appeals judge on Tuesday had blunt criticism for a lower court judge’s order to release hundreds of immigrants on bond whose arrests during “Operation Midway Blitz” are being challenged under a consent decree that limits so-called warrantless detention.

During arguments before a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Judge Thomas Kirsch II called out U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings for failing to make a determination on who among the 450 or so detainees still locked up in the U.S. would qualify as a class member in the lawsuit.

“He just determined that they were a potential class member and released them,” said Hirsch, who was nominated to the 7th Circuit during the waning days of the first Trump administra

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