Appeals court greenlights #Trump admin policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without opportunity to seek release
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/appeals-court-trump-immigration-detention-policy
@Nonilex This doesn't address the fascists jailing all immigrants and declaring them all illegal regardless of their actual legal status. Denying due process to people based on the lies of the government is tyrannical lawlessness.
@Nonilex Without habeas, the potential is that Trump's regime could use this process to indefinitely detain anyone without them ever seeing a courtroom and being able to say to a judge "I am a citizen of the United States and have been wrongfully detained against my will."
This is a system for disappearing people without appeal.
A divided federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of the #Trump admin’s policy of detaining millions of undocumented immigrants, even those who have been living in the #US for decades, without the opportunity to challenge their detention, handing Trump a major “win” as he seeks to carry out an aggressive #deportation campaign.
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@Nonilex Shouldn't forget his pining for the Nobel Peace Prize while at it. It's either peace or, in this case, war.
The 2-1 ruling from the ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals means that in several southern states, scores of #immigrants who had been living in the #US unlawfully, including those who were previously allowed to remain out on bond as their case made its way through the #immigration system, can now be detained & denied the opportunity to seek their release through bond hearings before immigration judges.
In thousands of cases around the country, federal judges had consistently ruled that the policy #Trump rolled out last year was #unlawful, but Friday’s decision marks the first time an appeals court has backed it. The ruling only applies to #immigrants in #Texas, #Louisiana & #Mississippi.
#law #HabeasCorpus #CivilRights #immigration #fascism #tyranny
“There’s a reason why, across more than three thousand cases in dozens of federal district courts, the #Trump administration decided to have its first appeal of a loss on this issue go to the #FifthCircuit,” said Steve Vladeck, #SCOTUS analyst & professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who has previously written about the legal dispute in these cases.
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@Nonilex ..of course not a possibility, but I wonder what the results would be if we could "poll" all the Appeals Circuit Courts on how they would have ruled on this case.....
“The #FifthCircuit isn’t just the most right-leaning appeals court in the country; the government drew on this panel two of that right-leaning court’s most right-leaning judges. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to get the last word,” he said.
Though other appeals courts around the #US are still examining the policy, the 5th Circuit’s ruling tees up a likely showdown over it at #SCOTUS.
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