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A federal appeals court on Thursday compared the Trump administration's sweeping immigration detention policy to some of the darkest chapters in United States history, including the World War II internment of Japanese Americans, as it ruled that longtime undocumented immigrants are entitled to bond hearings while fighting deportation. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected the administration's argument that millions of immigrants who entered the country unlawfully could be held in mandatory detention without access to bond hearings. The ruling adds to a growing split among federal appeals courts that could ultimately force...

A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the high‑profile case accusing nine North Texans of attacking the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on the Fourth of July, after determining that a defense attorney’s shirt could improperly influence potential jurors. The mistrial was issued Tuesday during jury selection, after Judge Mark Pittman noticed that defendant Maricela Rueda's defense attorney, MarQuetta Clayton, was wearing a T‑shirt under her jacket with images tied to the civil rights era beneath her jacket. Clayton later exited the courthouse with the shirt turned inside out, which had depicted images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley...

Although there have been no confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease in federal immigration detention facilities, open borders groups are taking advantage of the health crisis to demand that all illegal aliens be immediately released from custody and into communities throughout the United States. The movement, known as FreeThemAll , was launched this month by a coalition of leftist nonprofits long critical of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. “The immigrant community is at grave risk,” according to one of the groups leading the effort, Texas-based Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). The public is encouraged to...