US launches new bid to keep migrants detained by denying hearings, memo shows
The guidance by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a portion of which Reuters reviewed, could be applied to millions of people who crossed the border illegally and are contesting their deportation.
3 A bus is pictured at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelan migrants at the center of a Supreme Court ruling on deportation are held, in Anson, Texas, on April 20, 2025.
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President Donald Trump has vowed mass deportations, which he says are needed after high levels of illegal immigration under his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden.
Congress passed a spending law this month that provides funding to detain at least 100,000 people, a steep increase over the record 58,000 in custody by late June.
The Washington Post first reported the new ICE policy limiting bond hearing eligibility, citing a July 8 memo by its acting director, Todd Lyons.
The guidance shared with Reuters called for ICE to interpret several immigration law provisions as 'prohibitions on release' after an arrest, adding the shift in policy was 'likely to be litigated.'
3 A US Department Of Homeland Security and US Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the US Customs and Border Protection Headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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3 Handcuffs are carried after being removed from detained migrants who boarded a plane after being transferred from an ICE detention facility, at Gary/Chicago International Airport, in Gary, Indiana, on June 20, 2025.
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It encouraged ICE prosecutors 'to make alternative arguments in support of continued detention' during immigration court hearings.
The new policy appeared to reverse legal standards governing detention for decades, said Tom Jawetz, a former homeland security official in the Biden administration, calling it 'a radical departure that could explode the detention population.'
The US Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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