MINNEAPOLIS — An immigration judge terminated the deportation case against a University of Minnesota student who was arrested in March. Judge Sarah Mazzie ruled that President Trump’s ICE deportation agents had failed to demonstrate why Doğukan Günaydin posed a danger to the public. The judge acknowledged that Günaydin had the 2023 drunken driving conviction that JCE had used to justify ambushing him on a St. Paul street and hauling him off for deportation. Mizzie said that although drunk driving was undoubtedly dangerous, “the evidence is insufficient to establish he placed a large segment of the general population at risk.” The ruling doesn’t free Günaydin from federal custody but requires judicial review. ICE has been under pressure to meet Trump quotas for alien deportations to support the President’s claim as tough on criminal gangs. In response ICE has averaged 400 arrests a day since Trump was inaugurated in January. Most of the arrests have had nothing to do with criminal gangs. The agency has recklessly ignored judicial review as a human right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.
