(CN) — A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled Friday that the Trump administration can lawfully deny bond hearings for all individuals in deportation proceedings, despite over 300 federal judges having ruled to the contrary.
The conservative majority overruled federal judges in two separate cases, bucking nearly 30 years of federal immigration policy allowing release without bond to “applicants for admission” and allowing detainees already in the U.S. to request a bond hearing while going through removal proceedings.
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