Judges have issued over 7,000 rulings in recent months that ICE has locked up migrants without proving they are a threat
Source: The Independent
Friday 20 March 2026 19:48 EDT
The Trump administration keeps losing court challenges regarding its mass immigration arrests. In recent months, federal judges have ruled more than 7,000 times that Immigration and Customs Enforcement illegally arrested people without giving them the chance to prove they could safely remain in their communities while their immigration cases played out, a Politico analysis found.
In many of these cases the Trump administration didn’t offer a counterargument when migrants challenged their detentions. Instead, administration lawyers have been regularly agreeing to bond hearings or the full release of migrants right away, citing a lack of legal opinions or relevant documentation they could use to support the original detentions, the analysis found. The Independent has contacted the Justice Department and ICE for comment.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has pursued a campaign of mass immigration arrests and detention. As of early February, according to the most recent government figures, more than 68,000 people were in ICE detention, most of whom lacked a prior criminal conviction.
Many have been in detention for prolonged periods of time based on the administration’s legal theory that most arrested immigrants aren’t eligible for bond hearings, even as cases can take years to move through the system. This has prompted a wave of emergency habeas corpus challenges, where federal officials must justify before a judge why they are still holding someone in detention.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-immigration-bond-illegal-b2942999.html
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