Court: Trump’s immigrant mass detention policy contradicts 30 years of precedent

A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration's practice of refusing bond hearings to immigrants detained in the interior of the United States. Per CalMatters, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that many detained immigrants must be granted bond hearings — opportunities to post bail and await deportation proceedings while free. The court cited more than thirty years of precedent showing the federal government has traditionally treated interior detainees differently from those apprehended at the border: border arrivals can be deported almost immediately without a hearing, while those found deeper in the country have historically received bond hearings. Judge Daniel Bress, appointed to the court by President Trump himself, acknowledged the long legal record in his opinion. The ruling covers the entire West Coast, including California, and faces a circuit split among lower courts — a scenario that nearly guarantees the Supreme Court will take the case.

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