"On Friday, two far-right judges greenlit the Trump administration's radical reinterpretation of federal law that would sweep millions more immigrants into mandatory detention, potentially expanding the mass deportation machinery in new and horrifying ways. Their 2-1 decision for the 5 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would transform the entire United States into a permanent border zone where unauthorized immigrants can be jailed indefinitely without bond, even years after they arrived."
"The 5 th Circuit's Friday decision gives new legal muscle to the Stephen Miller-orchestrated mass deportation campaign by endorsing the administration's audacious rereading of a 1996 immigration law governing the detention of unauthorized migrants. For nearly 30 years, both the executive branch and the federal judiciary have understood this statute to draw a sharp line between migrants "seeking admission" at the border and those already in the country. The former are subject to mandatory detention without bond (with a few narrow exceptions)."
President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign intensified recently, producing chaos in Minneapolis and stretching the city's populace. A 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed a reinterpretation of federal law to place millions more unauthorized immigrants into mandatory detention. The ruling would permit indefinite, bondless jailing of unauthorized immigrants, even years after arrival. The decision advances plans to build mega detention facilities holding up to 10,000 people each, with minimal oversight and limited recourse for detainees. The court backed a rereading of a 1996 statute that historically distinguished "seeking admission" from those already in the country.
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