US EditionAppeals Court Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory ICE Detention Policy
The unanimous ruling says the government misread a decades-old law and could affect thousands of immigrants denied bond hearings.
- On Tuesday, the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration's policy of mandatory detention for long-term immigrants, affecting Connecticut, New York and Vermont.
- Last year, the Department of Homeland Security reinterpreted a 1990s immigration law, classifying long-term residents as "applicants for admission" and subjecting them to mandatory detention without bond hearings.
- Circuit Judge Joseph Bianco sided with over 370 lower-court judges rejecting the administration's position, warning the policy would create the "broadest mass-detention-without-bond mandate in our Nation's history for millions of noncitizens."
- DHS vowed to continue enforcement, claiming "judicial activists have been repeatedly overruled by the Supreme Court," while the 5th and 8th Circuit Courts previously endorsed the policy, raising Supreme Court intervention odds.
- The decision upholds release of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa, a Brazilian national detained after living in the United States for over 20 years, which Michael Tan of the American Civil Liberties Union praised.
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Court Rejects ICE's Mass Detention Policy
A federal appeals court has thrown a major wrench into the Trump administration's immigration detention strategy. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected Immigration and Customs Enforcement's effort to hold most people facing deportation without any chance at...
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