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ICE intentionally withheld information from a federal judge so they could throw her under the bus when she ruled without it. ICE instructed the assistant U.S. attorney handling the habeas case not to disclose the warrant, then DHS issued a press release attacking the judge for the resulting ruling — The New Republic
Judge Melissa DuBose granted habeas release to Bryan Rafael Gomez on April 28th. DuBose granted the writ of habeas corpus on April 28, 2026 — Rhode Island Current
ICE instructed the assistant U.S. attorney not to disclose a Dominican murder warrant — citing a foreign-authorization restriction. ICE’s Northeast Region legal office told AUSA Kevin Bolan on April 24 not to confirm or deny the warrant because U.S. officials had not yet been authorized by the Dominican Republic to use it — Rhode Island Current via Yahoo
ICE itself had already broken that restriction two weeks earlier when it published the warrant in its own press release. The international arrest warrant was referenced publicly by DHS on April 16, before ICE told the AUSA he could not disclose it — WJAR/Turn to 10
Two days after the ruling, DHS issued a press release calling DuBose an “activist Biden judge” for releasing a “violent criminal illegal alien wanted for murder.” DHS’s April 30 press release called DuBose an “activist judge” and attacked her for releasing “a violent criminal illegal alien who is wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic” — Rhode Island Current
The release is still live on the DHS website as of this week. The DHS press release remained on the government’s website as of Friday, May 8, 2026 — Boston Globe
The U.S. Attorney’s office formally apologized and confirmed the judge had no idea. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island issued a May 1 statement conceding Judge DuBose was unaware Gomez was wanted abroad when she issued her release order, and AUSA Bolan apologized to the court — Center for Immigration Studies
DuBose called it a threat to judicial security. DuBose said the DHS press release sets a “false narrative” that “puts people at risk” and called it “a threat to judicial security” — Boston Globe