Federal judges across the country have delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement push, ruling in more than 4,400 instances, since October, that the government is unlawfully holding immigrants. Even with these rulings piling up, the administration has often continued jailing people indefinitely, ignoring the courts’ orders.
The core of this disagreement centers on how the administration interprets federal law regarding bond eligibility. For nearly three decades, the interpretation allowed immigrants already living in the United States to be released on bond while they pursued their cases in immigration court. According to Reuters, Trump’s administration has fundamentally departed from that standard.
