Overview
- A federal judge in Nevada halted an ICE practice that kept people in deportation proceedings jailed without a bond hearing.
- The ruling restores the chance to ask an immigration judge for release and could affect hundreds of detainees in the state.
- The court ordered detention centers to post notices for detainees and to provide forms so people can seek custody review.
- Legal aid groups say bond access has shrunk since an ICE memo in July 2025 reinterpreted who must be detained, leaving even people with no criminal history stuck in custody.
- CNN has reported ICE arrests inside immigration courts, and the Justice Department told a judge it wrongly leaned on that ICE memo to defend some courthouse arrests.