Eighth Circuit Appears Friendly to Mandatory Detention Policy

Eighth Circuit judges on Thursday were skeptical that federal law requires bond hearings for noncitizens who have been detained by immigration enforcement officials.

Federal courts across the country are largely ruling against the Trump administration in cases challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s policy that all noncitizens arrested by immigration authorities must be detained while their cases proceed, teeing up a battle at the appellate courts over how to interpret the 1996 lllegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act.

Joaquin Herrera Avila’s position that he’s entitled to a bond hearing even though he was never inspected and admitted into the ...