Immigration Detention Policy
The legal framework governing the detention of migrants awaiting deportation, especially under contested policies.
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News Wrap: Supreme Court to review mandatory detention policy for migrants
In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for migrants, UK police arrested a British-Iranian citizen on suspicion of planning a terror attack following a security incident at an air base and a Russian drone slammed into a school in Kyiv as the capital endured yet another day of aerial attacks.
Taking On Trump Immigration Agenda, Justices Will Review Migrant Detention Policy
The administration’s policy of detaining immigrants who crossed the border illegally years ago and holding them without a bond hearing has divided lower courts.
Trump administration asks supreme court to back immigration detention policy
Government asks justices to allow people who have lived in US for years to be held without chance to seek bond
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to let it detain people arrested in its immigration crackdown without a chance to seek bond, even if they have lived in the country for years.
The administration made that request in a filing made public on Friday, asking the court to overturn a May decision by a federal appeals court, which had rejected its reinterpretation of a decades-old immigration law that now underlies its mass detention policy.
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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.
How Delaney Hall Became Ground Zero in Trump’s Deportation Wars
This rundown detention center on an industrial strip in New Jersey is representative of what’s happening across the country.
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
Dozens of children torn from their parents at the border have now been separated from their families a second time despite legal protections, an AP investigation finds.
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Texas runoff roiled by shadowy spending and a call to imprison ‘American Zionists’
A Democratic House candidate in Texas who said she wanted to turn a immigrant detention center into a facility to imprison “American Zionists” has Democrats scrambling to distance the party from her and accusing Republicans of interference in the race.
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House Democratic leaders condemn Texas candidate for antisemitic comments
House Democrats are condemning Texas candidate Maureen Galindo for saying she’d turn an immigration detention center into a “prison for American Zionists” if she won.
She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her 2-year-old son with a violent uncle who allegedly abused and killed him.
She says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.
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