Image: A participant ties a red poppy to the fence outside the Aurora US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Aurora, Colorado.  (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)

Brad Reed of Common Dreams reports: “Two separate federal courts on Thursday rejected Trump administration’s justification for its mass detention of immigrants.

First, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the administration had misconstrued the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as mandating detention without bond for all undocumented immigrants in the US.

The court found that the INA’s mandatory detention policy only applied to undocumented immigrants who had been apprehended shortly after crossing the border and not to undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for years after entering the country illegally…”

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