A federal appeals court found on Friday night that the Trump administration’s mass detention policy concerning illegal immigrants it is looking to deport can continue.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, said the Trump administration properly reinterpreted a 2025 law in disqualifying illegal immigrants from being released on bond, in effect allowing illegal immigrants to continue to be detained en masse by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Politico.
Previously, detainees could be released on bond to fight their deportation outside of a detention center unless they had recently crossed the border, but that precedence was challenged by the Trump administration, which maintains that illegal immigrants can be detained without bond no matter how long they’ve been in the country, according to CBS News.
Tim Collins is a platforms producer and editor at MS NOW.