Court Blocks Trump's Mass Immigrant Detention

0:00On April 28th, a federal appeals court in New York just dropped a major ruling saying the Trump administration can't lock up immigrants without giving them a bond hearing. The second U.S. Circuit Court panel was unanimous, calling out serious constitutional problems with what they said would be the biggest mass detention without Bondin. U.S. history hitting millions of non-citizens. This policy kicked off last July when the Department of Homeland Security started denying Bond to pretty much everyone targeted for deportation, even folks arrested far from the border. Before that, long-time residents without criminal records usually got a shot at Bond while their cases played out. Now it's straining the system hard, with over 30,000 lawsuits flooding federal courts as immigrants file habeas petitions just to seek. Relics Take this Brazilian guy who's been in the U.S. since around 2005. No arrests, owns a home in Massachusetts with his wife and two Americans, kids, runs

1:00a construction business he got caught in it too. The judges said the government's take on a 1996 immigration law twists the plain text, ignoring how Congress set up different rules, based on how long someone's been here. Meanwhile, the fifth and eighth circuits back the policy, so this sets up a likely Supreme Court showdown. Advocates are cheering it as a win against unlawful detention, while Homeland Security insists they're just enforcing the law to keep America safe. Eyes are on what comes next in this ongoing immigration clash. That's your update from U.S. News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.