The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years. Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration.
In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.
The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants “shall be detained” after their arrest, but that has historically applied to those who recently crossed the border and not longtime residents.
Part of the plan to torture them until they sign a waiver to self-deport and get out of a literal concentration camp.
No. They’ll keep them in prison and use them as slave labor to do the exact same agriculture jobs they used to do but without pay.
You think they’ll be given a chance to get out of the concentration camps?
Literally what their playbook is at this point to force people out and skip courts.
Lol, they can’t be used as slaves if they self deport. Don’t kid yourself, this is about getting a permanent supply of slave labor for the rich
What the fuck are you guys doing over there?
Being the willing victims of military psychological warfare through social media and propping up a demented rapist to enforce fascism on an otherwise distracted country.
Fascism.
Creating a modern do-over of Stalinism mixed with Nazism and Christian theocracy.
Unfortunately it is as 'murican as apple pie and nazis.
God smite my country!
The fuck it is. This shit is goddamned unholy. Or whatever.
