Bond hearings for ICE detainees |
The Supreme Court in the US announced that it will hear the Obama Administration’s appeal to overturn a ruling that would grant a bond hearing for release to undocumented immigrants who have been held in custody at Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of 1,000 detainees – represented by the American Civil Liberties Union – who had been held in custody for more than a year without a bond hearing. The court ruled that incarcerating potential immigrants for an indefinite period of time violated their rights to due process. The court also ruled that ICE must prove that a detainee who is not released on bond poses a flight risk or danger to the community. Indian nationals and other South Asian asylum seekers have gone on hunger strikes in an attempt to get a bond hearing. At a bond hearing, an immigration judge can determine whether a detainee can be released to a relative until their asylum case is settled.
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