Immigration & refugees

Appeals Court Rules Undocumented Immigrants Can Be Held Without Bond

Is this ruling a long-overdue enforcement of the law or an unprecedented attack on due process?

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Appeals Court Rules Undocumented Immigrants Can Be Held Without Bond

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Above: The California City Immigration Processing Center on March 25 in California City, California. Image credit: David McNew/Getty Images

The Spin

Republican narrative

This is a massive win for law and order. The law has always required this, and activist judges simply refused to enforce it. Decades of lax enforcement created a crisis, and mass detention is the lawful corrective. Election outcomes shape policy direction, and the Trump administration is delivering exactly what voters demanded.

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Democratic narrative

Holding long-term residents, including people with no criminal records, without bond hearings is a radical rewrite of 30 years of settled immigration law. Over 350 federal judges rejected this interpretation before two appellate judges rubber-stamped it. Stripping due process to inflate deportation numbers is injustice.

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