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Illegal immigrants will no longer be set free as they fight possible deportation, according to a new report.
The Washington Post, citing a July 8 memo from Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency seeks to detain illegal immigrants “for the duration of their removal proceedings.”
Currently, illegal immigrants can request a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge. This can result in their release.
Lyons said the departments of Homeland Security and Justice “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and decided anyone entering the U.S. illegally “may not be released from ICE custody.”
Customs and Border Protection will also follow the policy, the Post reported.
The Post report said this will apply to illegal immigrants already in the U.S., a departure from past practices in which only those caught after immediately crossing the border were detained.
ICE declares millions of immigrants without legal status as ineligible for bond hearings - The Washington Post They don’t deserve hearings just instant removal like a flash of light! Self Deportation with a chance of returning one day is the best option! https://t.co/BAJw2gBkzm
— Ronald Brackett (@windjammer1957) July 15, 2025
The American Immigration Lawyers Association said bond hearing denials are taking place in New York, Virginia, Oregon, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia. --->READ MORE HERE
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During the 2016 and 2024 election cycles, Donald Trump promised to end "catch and release" immigration enforcement policies. This refers to the practice of allowing illegal immigrants bond while their cases work through the administrative courts, at least those who don't appear to present a flight risk. However, the absconding rate is constantly high, and the result has been millions of illegal aliens absorbed into the country with few resources to re-arrest them and finish their cases.
At least for now, the opportunity for bonding out is closed. ICE will now detain all illegal border-crossers for the duration of their case, without exception:
The Trump administration is attempting to make millions of immigrants living in the country illegally ineligible to be released from detention on bond as they fight their deportation cases, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.
The policy shift, issued under what is known as interim guidance by acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons last week, will apply to all immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, no matter when. Lyons told officers in a memo that such immigrants should remain in detention throughout their deportation proceedings, which can stretch for months or even years, according to the official, who had been briefed on the memo.
The move marks a significant departure from decades of practice, when immigration judges had the latitude to release someone from detention on a bond if they weren’t deemed a flight risk. Immigration law states that all immigrants in the country illegally must be detained while their fates are decided, but with limited beds available in ICE jails, the government had considered the law effectively impossible to enforce.
Will this throw millions of illegal immigrants into detention centers overnight, as the Wall Street Journal suggests? Not really, not even theoretically. It's too late to apply this to the "millions of immigrants living in the country illegally," as the WSJ wastes syllables in describing illegal aliens. (Don't let the Newspeak ministers distract from the fact that "illegal alien" is the correct legal term for people who enter and stay in the US illegally.) Most of those inside the US who could be impacted by this policy change are already absconders and subject to arrest and detention anyway.
This policy is not aimed at the existing population of illegal aliens. It's aimed at those who want to try entering the US illegally now and in the future. It sends a very clear signal that there will be no way to avoid making the inside of a detention center the sum total of one's experience of living in the US under those circumstances. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++No more catch-and-release—ONLY CATCH AND DEPORT!+++++
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