Appeals Court Blocks Release of Hundreds
of Chicago-Area Immigration Detainees
Posted By: sunset, 11/20/2025 7:10:54 PM
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order on Thursday that had called for the release of hundreds of people arrested by immigration agents in the Chicago area. The administrative stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which the Trump administration requested, halts the release of those detainees while the government’s appeal moves forward. Appellate judges are scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on Dec. 2. Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the U.S. District Court ordered that most of the detainees in a group of 615 people be released on bond by this Friday while their immigration cases move forward.
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Jeffrey Cummings is an Obama ACORN lawyer hired as a judge by Autopen in 2023. The judge is saying that autopen agreed to a consent decree giving illegal aliens a right to roam freely in America. That is what the nation is dealing with right now.