By MIKE CATALINI and STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press<\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The chief federal judge in\u00a0Minnesota<\/a>\u00a0says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>\u00a0to appear before him Friday to explain why he should not be held in contempt.<\/p>\n In an order dated Monday, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said Todd Lyons, the\u00a0acting director of ICE<\/a>, must appear personally in court. Schiltz took the administration to task over its handling of bond hearings for immigrants it has detained.<\/p>\n \u201cThis Court has been extremely patient with respondents, even though respondents decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provision for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n The order comes a day after\u00a0President Donald Trump ordered<\/a>\u00a0border czar Tom Homan to take over his administration\u2019s immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the\u00a0second death this month<\/a>\u00a0of a person at the hands of an immigration law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n Trump said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he had \u201cgreat calls\u201d with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Monday, mirroring comments he made immediately after the calls.<\/p>\n The White House had tried to blame Democratic leaders for the protests of federal officers conducting immigration raids. But after the\u00a0killing of Alex Pretti<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday and videos suggesting he was not an active threat, the administration tapped Homan to take charge of the Minnesota operation from\u00a0Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino<\/a>.<\/p>\n