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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Nick Suter

Panel of Judges Rejects Trump's Immigration Detention Policy Citing Violations in Stunning Judicial Setback

Ice detention centre in California City (Credit: PHOTO : SAUL GONZOLEZ/CALIFORNIA REPORT)

President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration agenda has suffered a critical judicial defeat as a Federal Appeals Court struck down a policy enabling the mandatory detention of millions.

On Tuesday, 28 April 2026, a unanimous three-judge panel from the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the administration cannot indefinitely hold non-citizens without the possibility of a bond hearing.

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