Judge Orders Bond Hearing or Release for ICE Detainee at McCook

Judge orders bond hearing or release for ICE detainee at McCook

A 44-year-old man being held at a federal immigration detention center at McCook must be given a bond hearing or released, a federal judge in Lincoln ruled this week.

As Minnesota ICE crackdown continues, detainees quietly transferred to Nebraska jails

The unprecedented immigration sweeps in Minnesota over the past two months have landed at least 20 detained immigrants in an unexpected place: a Nebraska county jail.  Cass, Lincoln and Sarpy counties all have housed immigrants arrested in Minnesota since December, according to a Flatwater Free Press analysis of federal court documents and reviews of jail rosters. The analysis also found at least seven cases involving a detainee held at the form…

Federal judge sides with McCook migrant detainee in ACLU Nebraska lawsuit

The Work Ethic Camp in McCook, Nebraska. Oct. 24, 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)LINCOLN — An undocumented migrant caught in legal limbo at the ICE detention center in McCook will get a bond hearing soon, or, a federal judge has ruled, the federal government must release him.  U.S. District Judge Susan Bazis issued an order late Monday calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to arrange a bond hearing within seven…