ICE must 'immediately' release immigrant who was detained after calling 911 to help save someone else's life, judge says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Mar 7th, 2026, 10:31 am


A federal judge in Maine has ordered the Trump administration to "immediately" release a Chinese man who was detained by immigration agents after trying to stop someone from committing suicide. The 13-page order comes as another in a long line of district court cases rejecting outright controversial efforts to reshape how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) classifies immigrants in order to detain them.

In the case, the petitioner, Chaoyi Wu, won habeas corpus relief by convincing U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann, a Joe Biden appointee, that his detention was a violation of the due process guarantee under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The petitioner entered the country near Hidalgo, Texas, in November 2021 and was quickly placed in expedited removal proceedings and ordered to be deported. Then, later that same month, he was paroled for "humanitarian purposes related to the Covid-19 pandemic," the court explains.

"Following the expiration of his parole on November 12, 2022, the Government took no action to re-detain Mr. Wu for over three years," the order notes. "During this period, Mr. Wu built a life in the United States, married an American citizen, and filed an asylum claim which remains pending."


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Full headline: 'Unconstitutional detention': ICE must 'immediately' release immigrant who was detained after calling 911 to help save someone else's life, judge says

Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.med.69981/gov.uscourts.med.69981.18.0.pdf

[erronis]

1. Real penalties. Any ICE/DHS official condoning these types of actions should be immediately placed

on unpaid administrative leave until the matter is resolved in the courts. All the way from the agents involved up the chain of authority.

If this action was not legal then anyone in the chain that violated the defendant's rights should be fired and liable for civil and criminal penalties.

If, for example, the agent acted sua sponte (in his/her own accord - without approval from above), then that agent would immediately be fired and subject to legal proceedings.

(IANAFL)

[Oneironaut]

2. This is such bad precedent

There’s a reason Good Samaritan laws exist, too. Imagine bleeding out from an accident, but, the only one there who can help is an illegal immigrant. Instead of calling 911, they let you bleed out and die, because they want to see their family again and not be black-bagged and shipped off to a prison camp. Can you blame them?

Trash society. That’s what we’re creating with shit like this.