ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/14/ice-trump-undocumented-immigrants-bond-hearings/

ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from the agency’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
July 14, 2025 at 7:46 p.m. EDT
By Maria Sacchetti and Carol D. Leonnig

The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years. Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under Biden.

In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.

The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants “shall be detained” after their arrest, but that has historically applied to those who recently crossed the border and not longtime residents.

The sweeping new detention policy comes days after Congress passed a spending package that will allocate $45 billion over the next four years to lock up immigrants for civil deportation proceedings. The measure will allow ICE to roughly double the nation’s immigrant detention capacity to 100,000 people a day.

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[Initech]

1. And I declare Donald Trump and Tom Homan massive pieces of shit who should be doing hard time in Supermax.

[sheshe2]

5. You can add Noem to that list!

[Initech]

6. Noem, Bondi, Patel, RFK Jr, the list goes on!

[sheshe2]

7. And on....

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Disgusting. Turning the USA in a massive prison camp..

[MrWowWow]

3. Everyone in Custody is Guaranteed Due Process

Just because of immigration violations, said violator cannot under the U.S. Constitution, be denied Due Process.
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/immigration-court-system-explained

[superpatriotman]

4. This will certainly clear the dockets in immigration courts

Should be an easy load to carry.

[Cheezoholic]

8. This is nothing more than legalized slavery making billionaire's more billions tax free with their new tax cut n/t

[dalton99a]

11. +1. It is a bonanza for the private prison industry

[Tarzanrock]

9. Imagine a country so god damn 'lawless' that it intentionally and purposefully violates legal due process, ...

deliberately violates constitutionally protected rights of personal freedom and personal liberty and universally recognized human rights guaranteed by the U.N. Charter of which that country is a treaty signatory. This is the new Nazi Germany which was found "guilty" of these same sort of crimes by the US prosecutors and Judge in the German Judges/Justice Trials at Nuremberg. See, "United States v. Josef Altstoetter, et al."

[KentuckyWoman]

10. MAGA core belief

Non-citizens have no rights.
Citizenship can be revoked for any reason by executive order.

[wiggs]

12. Aren't there international laws and agreements that govern immigration, asylum, etc? nt

[pfitz59]

13. yes

but MAGA don't care. Terror, fear and suffering gets them hard and or tingly. They a sexual deviants.

[WarGamer]

15. the concept of international law isn't accepted legally by many countries, including the USA.

[sakabatou]

14. And I will call cops on any ICE agent/group as possible suspects in kidnapping