Two thirds of Americans say ICE has gone too far. On Friday, two judges gave them permission to go further.
The Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that anyone who entered the country without going through a port of entry can be held without a bond hearing for the duration of their case, overruling more than 350 federal judges who had already ruled that they couldn’t. That’s the law for now in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
The ruling came down hours after tuberculosis was confirmed in a Fort Bliss tent city where a detainee’s homicide had been covered up as “medical distress.” Maryland’s governor had already mobilized his AG over a $102 million detention warehouse not zoned for human habitation, and a congresswoman flew to Dilley to physically walk an Oregon family out of a facility where ICE sent them after grabbing their 7-year-old at an emergency room.
People are pushing back where they can. The courts will eventually rule again. But the gap between what Americans want and what two judges just allowed Trump’s DHS to do to millions of people has never been wider.
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