 "New Trump policy could keep migrants in detention for years: No bond, no release")
US President Donald Trump’s administration has revoked access to bond hearings for immigrants who entered the country illegally, making it nearly impossible for them to get out of jails.
According to a report by the Washington Post_,_ the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd M. Lyons, sent a memo to officials on July 8 saying that illegal immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can last for months or years.
Unlike earlier, when immigrants residing in the US were allowed to request a bond hearing, the Department of Homeland Security under Trump “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.”
Who will be affected?
The new policy applies to millions of undocumented immigrants, including those who arrived under the Biden administration. The change removes the possibility of release on bond, significantly expanding the number of people held in immigration detention.
Immigrant rights activists and legal experts have argued that the policy could lead to overcrowded detention centres and prolonged detention without due process.
Meanwhile, mandatory detention in centres located in far-flung areas like “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida or the Arizona desert will make it more difficult for migrants to access legal help, as they will be unable to work or communicate with their families.
ICE is detaining approximately 56,000 immigrants daily as officers intensify nationwide efforts to locate undocumented individuals, working extended hours to meet Trump’s goal of deporting 1 million people within his first year. Officials have also reopened family detention centers previously closed by the Biden administration due to safety concerns.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts‘Detention is the best approach’
Immigration czars have backed Trump’s detention policies as a way to quickly deport immigrants who do not qualify for asylum or have permission to stay in the country.
Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, told WP, “Detention is absolutely the best way to approach this, if you can do it. It costs a lot of money, obviously. You’re pretty much guaranteed to be able to remove the person, if there’s a negative finding, if he’s in detention.”
Since the memos were issued, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that immigrants have been denied bond hearings in over a dozen immigration courts nationwide, including in New York, Virginia, Oregon, North Carolina, Ohio, and Georgia. The immigration courts are overseen by the Department of Justice.
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