{"id":36590,"date":"2026-02-13T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/13\/ice-blocked-detainees-access-to-lawyers-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:09:00","slug":"ice-blocked-detainees-access-to-lawyers-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/13\/ice-blocked-detainees-access-to-lawyers-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE blocked detainees&#8217; access to lawyers in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that detainees have access to their attorneys \u200bin Minnesota, after finding that the agency had blocked thousands of people from \u200bseeing their lawyers during a recent enforcement \u2060surge. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in his first term, said ICE\u2019s \u200bpractices during the recent Operation \u200cMetro Surge, including a policy of quickly moving detainees out of Minnesota and depriving them of phone calls, \u201call but extinguish a detainee\u2019s access to counsel.\u201d Brasel made \u200bthe initial ruling in a class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of detainees on January 27 and her order will remain in place for 14 days while the proceedings play \u200cout.       The court order \u200crequires the government to \u200bstop rapidly transferring detainees out of the state and to allow attorney-client visits and private phone calls between detainees and their lawyers.       Democracy Forward, a nonprofit that file<br \/>d the lawsuit on behalf of detainees, said that the right to a lawyer is not &#8220;optional&#8221; \u200bin the U.S.       &#8220;DHS has been detaining people in a building never meant for long-term custody, shackling them, secretly transferring them out of state and blocking access to counsel and oversight in a deliberate effort to \u200bevade accountability,&#8221; Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman said in a statement.       A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ICE did not dispute that detainees had a constitutional right to counsel and it said it does not have a policy of preventing detainees from seeing their lawyers, according to \u200cthe ruling. But in practice, it provided conditions that isolated thousands of people from their attorneys, Brasel said. The plaintiffs, who are noncitizen detainees, had provided substantial and specific evidence about their detention conditions, which \u2060contradicted ICE\u2019s \u201cthreadbare\u201d explanations of its \u200bpolicies and its protestations t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that detainees have access to their attorneys \u200bin Minnesota, after finding that the agency had blocked thousands of people from \u200bseeing their lawyers during a recent enforcement \u2060surge. 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