Federal judge strikes down large parts of Trump mass detention policies for migrants

A federal judge in California on Thursday tossed out a lower court ruling that supported broad detention powers of migrants by the Trump administration.

Judge Sunshine Sykes, a Biden bench appointee, said the government’s claim it was taking the "worst of the worst" criminal illegal immigrants for deportation was "inaccurate."

"'Worst of the worst’ is an inaccurate description of most of those affected by DHS and ICE’s operations," Sykes wrote. "Perhaps in utilizing this extreme language...