Who will pay for ICE's damage?

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2. Tragically, we are already paying for DOJ defense of the regime's criminal acts. However,

...the people are winning. And when the regime is gone, there will be solid cases against minions in the administration.

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention-deportation-00632086

It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory.

More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal, according to a POLITICO review

When this regime is gone, prosecutions against Trump will undoubtedly be pursued on the grounds that corruption in the form of self-dealing and acts that violate the constitution cannot be considered "official acts" for which he has immunity. Some of these may, or may not, get far.

But other people in the administration only have qualified immunity, which protects them from civil liability unless they violate "clearly established" statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.

I think there are a host of people who we will be able to hold personally liable for acts that blatantly violate constitutional rights -- particularly in light of the fact that they continue to commit the actions after courts have deemed them illegal.