Matt Sepik

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District Judge Patrick Schiltz directed Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court in Minneapolis personally on Friday after ICE didn't respond to orders to set a bond hearing for Juan Hugo Tobay Robles.

Ice arrested the 43-year-old on January 6th, but his lawyer says the agency never gave a reason.

On Monday, Judge Schultz wrote, quote, the court's patience is at an end, but he gave Ice an off-ramp and said he'd cancel the hearing if it freed Robles.

Immigration attorney Graham Ojala-Barber says Ice released his client from a detention facility in Texas less than a day after the judge issued the order.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.

U.S.

District Judge Patrick Schiltz directed acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court in Minneapolis personally on Friday.

after ICE didn't respond to orders to set a bond hearing for Juan Hugo Tobai Robles.

ICE arrested the 43-year-old on January 6th, but his lawyer says the agency never gave a reason.

On Monday, Judge Schiltz wrote, quote, the court's patience is at an end, but he gave ICE an off-ramp and said he'd cancel the hearing if it freed Robles.

Immigration attorney Graham Ojala-Barber says ICE released his client from a detention facility in Texas less than a day after the judge issued the order.

For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.

Two weeks ago, Judge Patrick Schiltz ruled that Juan Hugo Tobe Robles, whom immigration authorities arrested, is not subject to mandatory prolonged detention.

But Schiltz says ICE is not complying with his order to provide a bond hearing or release the man, or with dozens of similar orders.

The judge ordered Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear in court personally on Friday to answer why he shouldn't be held in contempt.

Schiltz was appointed by President George W. Bush and clerked for the late conservative U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

In a Monday order, Schiltz writes, quote, the court's patience is at an end.