New York Times 9/24/25
The president has limited immigration judges’ power to release detainees facing deportation. Immigrant rights groups say the policy is illegal.
For decades, U.S. immigration judges have granted bond to immigrants in detention who the court determined would show up for future hearings and were not public safety threats. That allowed many immigrants facing deportation to live in the community until their cases were decided, which often took years.
Now, detained immigrants facing deportation are generally expected to be held without bond for the duration of the legal proceedings.
The Board of Immigration Appeals said that immigration judges do not have to “hear bond requests or to grant bond” to people who did not lawfully enter the United States.