Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Making Immigration Arrests in Some Churches

The order impacts the Quakers, a Georgia-based network of Baptist churches, and a Sikh temple in California.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in a file photograph. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images

A federal judge on Feb. 24 issued an order blocking the Trump administration from conducting immigration raids at certain places of worship.

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of several groups who filed a lawsuit in a Maryland federal court challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to drop a memo released under the Biden administration that blocked immigration arrests at houses of worship and other locations.