PORTLAND, Ore. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement “routinely” violated a court order barring warrantless arrests in Oregon, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai wrote in an order on Monday, Nov. 2, KATU reported.
The judge found that one ICE agent lied in an official record to justify an arrest, KATU reported.
Key facts
- Kasubhai issued a preliminary injunction in February barring warrantless arrests without evidence of an escape risk, KATU reported.
- He ordered ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to share all documents on recent arrests, including body camera footage, KATU reported.
- The agencies must remind officers, employees and contractors of the order every 30 days, KATU reported.
- Expert witnesses testified that federal agencies arrested 574 people in Oregon from Feb. 5 to July 31 and reported 13 warrantless arrests, KATU reported.
What the judge wrote
“ICE has continued to conduct warrantless arrests without individualized, pre-arrest probable cause determinations,” Kasubhai wrote, according to KATU.
In a July arrest at Emigrant Lake, an officer wrote that a Medford man was the subject of a warrant, then testified that the warrant was for another man, KATU reported.
“He lied in an official record to facilitate the impression he was conducting a lawful warrant-based arrest,” Kasubhai wrote.
The judge also recounted a case in which ICE appeared to have arrested the wrong man in Hood River and held him in Tacoma, Wash., for nearly the whole summer, Willamette Week reported.
The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to KATU’s requests for comment. No trial date has been set.
Related coverage
- Immigration News: Migration Policy, Borders and Asylum
- Judge Pauses U.S. Plan to Deport Afghan Immigrants via Pakistan
Sources
- KATU, “‘Sloppy work’: Judge reprimands ICE in Oregon warrantless arrest lawsuit,” Nov. 2, 2026
- Willamette Week, “Finding ICE ‘Not Capable’ of Working With Integrity, Oregon Judge Orders Many New Records Into Public Domain,” Nov. 2, 2026
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