The admission by the President's Justice Department that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) provided false information to justify mass arrests at immigration courts has sparked outrage among attorneys and advocates, who are demanding that those detained in the crackdown be freed. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan told a judge that an ICE memorandum they had previously cited to defend the agency's immigration court arrests in an ongoing lawsuit did not justify the practice. The New York Civil Liberties Union is set to address the revelation in the coming weeks. The implications for those impacted by ICE's mistaken interpretation of their policy could include reopening cases and allowing them back to continue their cases in the US. The judge has now given lawyers for the groups party to the suit, The Door and African Communities Together, two weeks to respond to the government's admission that it muddied the record.