Schiltz took the administration to task over its handling of bond hearings for immigrants it has detained. This Court has been extremely patient with respondents, even though respondents decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provision for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result, the judge wrote.
The new policy would bar millions of immigrants from receiving a bond hearing during removal proceedings, affecting those who entered the US from Mexico in recent decades.