A federal judge in Minnesota has found a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt of court over the treatment of an immigrant released from ICE custody.
U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino has ordered Matthew Isihara, a military attorney brought in to assist Pam Bondi’s Justice Department as a special assistant U.S. attorney, to pay a $500 daily fine until all “identification documents” belonging to Rigoberto Soto Jimenez are returned to him.
The Mexican national, who has lived in Minnesota since 2018 and is a legal resident of the U.S., was detained by ICE in mid-January as part of Donald Trump’s hardline mass deportation efforts. Like hundreds of other immigrants in Minnesota arrested under the administration’s Operation Metro Surge, Soto Jimenez filed a lawsuit claiming his civil rights had been violated during his detention.
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