ICE revokes bond hearings for immigrants fighting deportation

The Trump administration is seeking to keep illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal custody by denying them bond hearings.

Acting ICE director Todd Lyons wrote in an agency memo distributed earlier this month that while migrants without lawful status have historically been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge as they fight deportation proceedings in court, the Trump administration has revoked that privilege, per documents obtained by the Washington Post and other outlets.