Another seventeen (17) habeas corpus cases have been filed in the federal district court for Minnesota so far this Saturday morning. That brings to 578 the total number of habeas cases filed in the month of January 2026, alone.
As I’ve mentioned before, the district didn’t reach 500 criminal cases for all of calendar year 2025.
Habeas filings have been extraordinarily effective in freeing illegal aliens held in ICE custody, succeeding in nearly every instance. However, the logistics of freeing individual defendants caught up in the massive Operation Metro Surge effort don’t always accommodate the schedule preferred by detainees and the presiding federal district judges.
As a result, district judges and local media accuse the feds of widespread defiance of judicial orders. As far as I can tell, 100 percent compliance is eventually reached, but in a few instances, it has required a few extra days or more than a week.
For example, Case No. 26-cv-804 was filed on Thursday (January 29), seeking the release of Majorie Esthefania Toalombo Chaglla, held in ICE custody. The case was reported that same morning at 11 am.
That same day, the presiding judge issued an order requesting a response from the government (representing the people) by Monday, February 2. As it happens, the plaintiff had already been moved out of Minnesota in the process of being deported by the time the judge made a ruling. Now the feds are accused of violating an order that they had not yet seen.
Now the feds must return the plaintiff to Minnesota. Keep in mind, the judge has done all of this without ever hearing from the government, whose deadline for a response is still pending.
Meanwhile on Monday, the jury trial for Isabel Lopez is scheduled to begin. She is charged with four counts related to her alleged assault on a federal officer during an anti-ICE riot on Lake Street in south Minneapolis way back in June 2025.
At her initial court appearance back in June, a consular notice was read into the record, qualifying Ms. Lopez for Minnesota Woman status.
On Tuesday, a couple of more recent (alleged) anti-ICE rioters are due back in court: Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The two (both Minnesota Men) are accused in the shovel attack on an ICE officer earlier this month. The government is appealing the judge’s decision to release the two of them on bond.
At the moment, the two remain in custody.
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