""Simply put, the language that Congress has chosen to use does not grant to the Executive unfettered authority to detain, without the possibility of bond, every unadmitted alien present in the country.""
""Nowhere in the text, structure, or history of the INA does that reading find steady footing.""
"Hundreds of federal courts have ruled against the mandatory detention policy as migrants have taken to filing habeas corpus petitions to get release."
Two federal appeals courts have ruled against the government's immigration detention policy, while two others have supported it, and one court is deadlocked. The policy change mandates that anyone entering the country illegally is detained by ICE without bond, leading to a significant increase in detention numbers. Judge Stanley Marcus stated that Congress did not grant the Executive unlimited authority to detain all unadmitted aliens without bond. Many federal courts have ruled against this policy, indicating a potential Supreme Court review.
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