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Seems the DOJ just threw ICE under the bus.<\/p>\n
We’ve all seen the stories in which someone is arrested at the courthouse where they are attending a government mandated<\/em> appointment with the judge. Instead of taking a step forward in the process, they find themselves on a plane to elsewhere – like an ICE facility staging them to be flown The memo, issued in May 2025, says ICE agents can conduct “civil immigration enforcement actions in or near courthouses when they have credible information that leads them to believe the targeted alien(s) is or will be present at a specific location.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And ICE has run with it.\u00a0 However, in a follow-on from DOJ:<\/p>\n But the DOJ said in its letter the memo “does not and has never applied to civil immigration enforcement actions in or near” immigration courts.<\/p>\n “We deeply regret this error,” the DOJ letter reads, which also blames ICE for the mistake. According to the DOJ lawyers, they were specifically “informed by ICE that the 2025 ICE Guidance applied to immigration courthouse arrests. In addition, we discussed with and obtained the approval of assigned ICE counsel before filing every brief in this case and making any oral representations to the Court and Plaintiffs.”NPR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sounds like those folks need to get on the same page. Something like this is red meat to a defense attorney.<\/p>\n Moving on to stolen cars – anyone who has lived near a border knows that stolen cars often cros said border and can be a bugger to get back. At least if you prove to the appropriate locals that the vehicle IS legally stolen, you sometimes get some satisfaction. Not gonna happen in Russia now, though.<\/p>\n The proposal, reportedly drafted by Russia\u2019s Interior Ministry at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, is framed in bureaucratic calm. The goal, officials say, is to protect the interests of car owners whose vehicles have been \u201clisted as wanted on the initiative of hostile states.\u201d<\/p>\n What Russia has now come up with is a legal environment where instead of acknowledging that the car was stolen, the draft law says the vehicle is \u201cwanted\u201d only because hostile states<\/em> (meaning EU countries) put it on that list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nick a car, get it to Russia… and it is no longer stolen property and you are golden. Essentially Putin is trying to nullify international property law as a way to mess with the West.<\/p>\n So, the phrase is a kind of legal sleight of hand: it transforms a stolen car into a victim of geopolitics. Instead of saying \u201cthis car was stolen,\u201d the law would say \u201cthis car was unfairly targeted by hostile governments.\u201d It literally turns criminal theft into a political dispute, giving Russia cover to legalize property that would otherwise be recognized internationally as stolen.\u00a0\u00a0Guessing Headlights<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m not necessarily proposing a solution… but will observe that many years ago, horse thieves were hanged.<\/p>\n Several sources say that the administration was caught flat-footed by Iran announcing the Straits of Hormuz closure.<\/p>\nhome<\/del> somewhere.\u00a0 The justification from DOJ?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/drive.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\")
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