The novel move to impose mandatory detention is another feature of Trump\u2019s hardline immigration crackdown during his second term in office, and has now made its way to the top court after several appeals court judges ruled that the policy violated federal law and fails to provide immigrants with due process.<\/p>\n
However, those decisions conflict with rulings by the fifth and eighth circuits \u2013\u00a0which ruled that immigrants accused of illegally entering and remaining in the US must be detained while their deportation cases are pending.<\/p>\n
The case that will be part of the supreme court\u2019s docket for the 2026-27 term focuses on Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a citizen of Brazil, who authorities say he entered the US illegally two decades ago and applied for asylum in 2016 and was granted a work permit.<\/p>\n
He sought a bond hearing after an immigration judge determined that his detention was mandatory after his September 2025 arrest. After Barbosa da Cunha sued, a federal judge ordered that be provided a hearing or released. An immigration judge found that Barbosa da Cunha did not present a flight risk or danger to persons or property, and ordered him released on bond. The administration appealed against the decision.<\/p>\n
The number of people in immigration detention has shot up<\/a> since Trump returned to office. It was more than 65,000 in July 2026, up from about 40,000 at the end of Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.34 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 43m ago<\/p>\n Trump invents false story about James Talarico, insisting Democrat is a ‘vaygan’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 54m ago<\/p>\n In Texas, Trump insists ‘we\u2019re doing great, but I can\u2019t get the word out’<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n ‘They love you there, Mr President,’ conservative reporter tells Trump of Oklahoma<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 2h ago<\/p>\n South Korea disputes Trump’s claim it agreed to fund $54bn Alaska pipeline \u2013 report<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 3h ago<\/p>\n Vance rallies Maga base in Florida, slamming Democrat Angie Nixon<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Here’s a recap of the day so far<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 5h ago<\/p>\n Trump administration excludes UK, France and Baltic allies from Nato meeting in Poland – report<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n Family of Renee Good sues ICE agent who shot her and top Trump officials<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 6h ago<\/p>\n Trump refuses to commit to not demolishing Kennedy Center<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 7h ago<\/p>\n Trump doesn’t rule out sending ICE agents to polls in upcoming midterms<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Supreme court says it will review whether Trump administration can detain immigrants while they challenge deportation<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 8h ago<\/p>\n Trump says that it\u2019s \u2018possible\u2019 that strikes on Iran will increase after the midterms<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 10h ago<\/p>\n Trump continues to take aim at media in wide-ranging Time interview<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 10h ago<\/p>\n White House blocks CNN from press pool again, despite judge\u2019s block on ban<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11h ago<\/p>\n Trump and Vance hit the campaign trail to support midterm candidates<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 12h ago<\/p>\n Americans are unhappy with Trump’s economy and rising prices, new poll finds<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 13h ago<\/p>\n Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump invents false story about James Talarico, insisting Democrat is a ‘vaygan’<\/p>\n In his ongoing remarks in Texas, Donald Trump<\/a> just told an entirely false story about James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate who is challenging Republican Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n As he has in the past, Trump asserted, falsely, that Talarico is a vegan, a word he continues to mispronounce as \u201cvaygan\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got to get this guy elected,\u201d Trump said of Paxton, who is in the crowd. \u201cYou got a freak show that\u2019s running against him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou notice the way all of a sudden he\u2019s eating meat,\u201d Trump said of Talarico. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t eat meat \u2013 he\u2019s a vaygan,\u201d the president said, meaning vegan.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what a vegan is? Vegans don\u2019t do well in Texas,\u201d Trump went on.<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, so now he goes to a barbecue, he eats meat,\u201d Trump said, recounting an entirely imaginary tale for which there is no evidence. \u201cYou know what he does after he eats? He says, \u2018excuse me\u2019. He goes behind the tent and he throws up. He throws up, he gets rid of the meat. He doesn\u2019t want meat.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>In Texas, Trump insists ‘we\u2019re doing great, but I can\u2019t get the word out’<\/p>\n Donald Trump is speaking now at the Peterbilt Motors plant in Denton, Texas.<\/p>\n He just repeated his claim that the US economy under his stewardship is in great shape, even as fuel prices spike due to his war on Iran, and consumer sentiment craters as inflation persists.<\/p>\n The president repeated his claim that he is doing a great job as president but suffers only from bad public relations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the greatest numbers of any president in the history of our country, and I can\u2019t get the word out,\u201d Trump told autoworkers. He then ran through what he called statistics that point to his success.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the best poverty numbers, the lowest numbers on poverty in the history of our country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe stock market is through the roof. And why that\u2019s good is your 401 K\u2019s are higher than they\u2019ve ever been before. And it\u2019s never been close. So we\u2019re doing great. But I can\u2019t get the word out.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump has not taken the stage yet, but he arrived at the Peterbilt Motors plant in Denton, Texas about 20 minutes ago and has been touring the facility.<\/p>\n According to the print pool reporter who arrived just after the president, a handful of protesters were outside with signs, including two that read: \u201cRelease the Epstein files\u201d and \u201c$5,000 doesn\u2019t buy my vote\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>‘They love you there, Mr President,’ conservative reporter tells Trump of Oklahoma<\/p>\n The White House refused to let CNN travel with Donald Trump<\/a> to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday, but the president did stop to take some questions from reporters who were permitted to fly with him on Air Force after landing in Texas.<\/p>\n The exclusion of CNN meant that video of the president\u2019s brief exchange with reporters on the tarmac was posted on social networks by two outlets, Real America\u2019s Voice<\/a> and One America News<\/a>, that are openly partisan in their support of Trump and were invited to cover him, alongside non-partisan journalists from Reuters, NPR and the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n An example of how soft the coverage of Trump can be when his aides pick the reporters who are allowed to ask him questions came in the following exchange a short time ago.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you have to accomplish tonight in Oklahoma?\u201d a reporter asked.<\/p>\n \u201cJust a speech; we\u2019re going to give a speech on how well we\u2019re doing\u201d, Trump replied.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re excited to see you, Mr President,\u201d a member of the pool told him. \u201cYou won every county in Oklahoma, 77 counties. You won all all of those counties in Oklahoma, all of them. They love you there, Mr President.\u201d<\/p>\n The brief gaggle ended with one of the partisan journalists teeing Trump up to hit Democrats.<\/p>\n \u201cMr President, how deleterious will the Democrats be to the growth that we\u2019ve seen in your term if they take the House and the Senate?\u201d the correspondent asked.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if the Democrats get in, we will end up in a financial depression. We will go into a depression the likes of which we\u2019ve never seen before. It\u2019ll be 1929,\u201d Trump replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.29 EDT<\/p>\n South Korea disputes Trump’s claim it agreed to fund $54bn Alaska pipeline \u2013 report<\/p>\n While we wait for the start of Donald Trump\u2019s remarks in Texas, let\u2019s pause for a moment to note that the government of South Korea on Thursday reportedly denied that it had agreed, as the president claimed with great fanfare<\/a> on Wednesday, to spend $54bn to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska.<\/p>\n In an Oval Office announcement on Wednesday, flanked by Dan Sullivan, a Republican senator facing a tough re-election battle, Trump said<\/a> that South Korea had agreed to pay to build an 807-mile (1,299km) pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska\u2019s North Slope to a liquefaction facility on Alaska\u2019s southern coast.<\/p>\n The Korean investment, Trump said, was part of a $200bn package of US projects that South Korea agreed to in 2025 as part of a trade deal in exchange for lower US tariffs on South Korean cars, auto parts and other products.<\/p>\n The White House then released video of Trump touting the investment.<\/p>\n Donald Trump said on Wednesday that South Korea was investing billions to build a pipeline in Alaska. The South Korean government disputed that on Thursday,<\/p>\n On Thursday, however, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>, the South Koreans insisted that they did not \u201cagree to a specific dollar figure\u2014or even to invest at all.\u201d<\/p>\n South Korea\u2019s industry ministry said that the government had only agreed to \u201cinitiate a review\u201d of the pipeline deal.<\/p>\n South Korea\u2019s industry minister, Kim Jung-kwan, took issue with to Trump\u2019s characterization of the country\u2019s Alaska LNG investment. \u201cPutting out figures, or using definitive language, goes far beyond what was agreed,\u201d he said at a briefing for reporters.<\/p>\n Reuters reported that the South Korean industry minister also he had expressed regret to the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, over the White House announcement, since it went beyond what had been agreed.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a017.05 EDT<\/p>\n According to a live video feed<\/a> from Reuters, a crowd is currently waiting for Donald Trump to arrive at a plant in Denton, Texas that manufactures diesel and electric trucks.<\/p>\n We are relying on the Reuters video because the White House on Thursday again refused to let CNN travel with him to carry out its designated pool camera duties.<\/p>\n The stage is adorned with large banners on either side of a podium that read \u201cAmerican Trucks\u201d and \u201cAmerican Jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n According to a local news report<\/a> from Fox 4 Dallas, the company, Peterbilt, says that it plans to add more than 1,000 new jobs at the Denton facility as a result of tariffs Trump put in place on trucks made outside the US.<\/p>\n Among those seen on the feed waiting for Trump is Ken Paxton, the Republican Senate candidate who was recently caught on an audio recording admitting that Trump\u2019s midterm convention in Dallas had hurt his campaign. In the audio obtained by the New York Times<\/a>, Paxton was asked if Trump was \u201ca little bit of a drag\u201d on his campaign against Democrat James Talarico.<\/p>\n Paxton replied: \u201cwhen we did that convention \u2014 it dropped our numbers. Everybody\u2019s numbers dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Vance rallies Maga base in Florida, slamming Democrat Angie Nixon<\/p>\n Vice-president JD Vance rallied in Lakeland, Florida today, in a county that Donald Trump<\/a> won by more than 20 points in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say by the turnout today, it seems very obvious that Florida is Maga country,\u201d Vance said, addressing the crowd and stumping for congressman Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, and incumbent GOP senator Ashley Moody who is facing a challenge from progressive Angie Nixon, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) \u2013\u00a0but hasn\u2019t been endorsed by the group.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is to say, \u2018then get the hell out of here, you don\u2019t belong in America,\u2019\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n During his address, a protestor was removed as he shouted about the war in Iran, high prices and the Epstein files. Vance accused him of people a \u201cclown\u201d and a \u201cDemocratic plant\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe kicked him out just like we\u2019re going to kick out the rest of the Democrats,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n JD Vance arrives at a campaign rally in Lakeland, Florida, 1 October 2026. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque\/Pool Reuters\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.12 EDT<\/p>\n The Trump administration broke the law when it pushed through a last-minute change to the form overseas citizens use to register and request absentee ballots, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said in a lawsuit<\/a> filed on Thursday.<\/p>\n Until recently, the form, the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA)<\/a>, gave overseas voters four options to choose from when describing their geographic location. Voters could say they needed an overseas ballot because they were on active military service, living outside the US with an intent to return, or living outside the US and uncertain about their return. The form also allowed voters to check a box if they were a US citizen who had never lived in the country (38 states and the District of Columbia<\/a> allow citizens born abroad to vote in at least some elections even if they have never lived in the country).<\/p>\n In August, as the deadline to send out overseas ballots approached, the Pentagon \u2013 the agency that oversees the form \u2013 submitted two emergency requests to modify the form. Among the changes, the Pentagon sought to eliminate the option allowing voters to say they were citizens who never lived in the US. The requests were quickly approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). NPR first reported<\/a> the changes earlier this week.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump and Republicans are so desperate to hang on to power that they are trying to eliminate the way some American citizens abroad register to vote and request mail ballots. They know that Americans, both at home and abroad, are going to reject their destructive agenda, and they are scrambling to disenfranchise as much of the electorate as possible by any means necessary,\u201d said Ken Martin, the chair of the DNC.<\/p>\n The Pentagon did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n The changes could confuse and discourage US citizens who have never lived in the country from registering and casting a ballot, experts said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the full report here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n While en route to a truck manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas, Trump issued another jab to the Biden administration, blaming the former president for high prices, that are the direct result of the war in Iran that Trump began.<\/p>\n He also claimed, falsely, that \u201cprices are way down from what Biden and the Dumocrats left us,\u201d using his pejorative nickname for the party. In fact, inflation is actually higher than when Joe Biden left office in 2025. \u201cPrices are coming down, RAPIDLY. It\u2019s the Dumocrats\u2019 fault, not the fault of the Republicans \u2014 But we are fixing it!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n As he headed to Texas today, Donald Trump<\/a> explained his decision to campaign in two Republican strongholds \u2013 Texas and Oklahoma with just over a month until the midterm elections.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I won all of them by a lot. I\u2019m going there just to make sure,\u201d Trump said, noting that his support for businessman, Mike Mazzei, in Oklahoma\u2019s gubernatorial primary, catapulted him to victory over the state\u2019s attorney general, Gentner Drummond.<\/p>\n The president was also asked about his daughter-in-law Lara Trump\u2019s recent comments that the Iran war could \u201ccost\u201d Trump the midterms.<\/p>\n Instead, the president said the conflict \u201cshould help\u201d because Iran \u201cwill not have a nuclear weapon\u201d. This despite stalled negotiations, the increasing price of fuel in the US and low approval ratings for the administration\u2019s handling of the war.<\/p>\n \u201cOil is going to come down very very soon,\u201d Trump added. \u201cOil is coming down as soon as Iran is finished and they\u2019re finished pretty much right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Here’s a recap of the day so far<\/p>\n The supreme court today said it will review whether the Trump administration can enforce its policy of denying bond hearings<\/a> for immigrants to determine whether they should remain detained while their cases are adjudicated. The novel move to impose mandatory detention is another feature of Trump\u2019s hardline immigration crackdown during his second term in office, and has now made its way to the top court after several appeals court judges ruled that the policy violated federal law and fails to provide immigrants with due process. More here<\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of sending federal immigration agents to polling sites in the upcoming midterms. When asked, the president said: \u201cHaven\u2019t thought of it\u201d and said that he \u201ccould\u201d use the Insurrection Act to declare a national emergency. \u201cA lot of people think I should use it sometimes,\u201d he added. However, it\u2019s worth noting that legal experts say the law \u2013 which would allow the president to deploy troops domestically \u2013 doesn\u2019t override the constitution, which prevents them from interfering with elections and appearing at polling sites.<\/p>\n The White House has, again, blocked CNN from covering Donald Trump as part of the rotating press pool. The outlet was scheduled to be a part of the group of media traveling to Texas and Oklahoma with the president today, but was removed from list of newsrooms in place for the trip, per the White House schedule. This comes as a Trump-appointed federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against the administration banning CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House.<\/p>\n In his Time interview, Trump insisted that he wasn\u2019t defying the judge\u2019s order by still preventing these outlets from covering the president at certain events. \u201cI don\u2019t have to go out of my way, these people write only bad stories,\u201d he said. The White House communications director, Steven Cheung, added that the judge\u2019s order required the president to restore the newsrooms\u2019 access to the White House, \u201cbut that\u2019s different than allowing the pool into the events in the Oval Office or on Air Force One\u201d.<\/p>\n The family of Renee Good, the woman killed by immigration agents in January in Minneapolis<\/a>, have filed two federal lawsuits against the agent who shot her and several top officials in the Trump administration. In the lawsuits, Good\u2019s partner, Becca Good, and her brother, Brent Ganger, alleged wrongful death and other violations of federal law, according to a press release<\/a> issued by their lawyers. More here<\/a><\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.26 EDT<\/p>\n Trump administration excludes UK, France and Baltic allies from Nato meeting in Poland – report<\/p>\n The Pentagon is set to host a meeting with several Nato members in Poland next month, however there are notable exclusions. Namely, the UK, France and several Baltic countries, according to Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n Citing six unnamed diplomats familiar with the planning, Politico reports that the gathering will be led by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon\u2019s policy chief, and will be a \u201cworking group focused on Nato\u2019s future\u201d.<\/p>\n Neither the White House or Pentagon responded to the Guardian\u2019s request for confirmation or comment.<\/p>\n Along with the UK and France, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are also reportedly not included in the scheduled meeting, despite all of the countries spending significantly on military and defense.<\/p>\n The nations that are set to attend are Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. Colby has held two similar meetings with the invitees earlier this year.<\/p>\n One of the diplomats interviewed by Politico said that splintering the alliance by hand-picking which countries to include could only add to the already fractious relationship with the US.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they try splitting Nato into the good ones and the bad ones, it is dangerous for the US,\u201d they told the outlet. \u201cBut for Europe, this is existential.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.13 EDT<\/p>\n Joseph Gedeon<\/p>\n Federal prosecutors in Washington DC<\/a> can never again charge the former Olympic canoeist David Hearn over damage to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, a judge ruled on Thursday, closing a case the US attorney\u2019s office had already conceded it should not have brought.<\/p>\n Judge Todd Edelman, of the DC superior court, dismissed the case with prejudice, siding with Hearn\u2019s lawyers over the office of the US attorney Jeanine Pirro, which had wanted to keep the option of refiling.<\/p>\n Pirro, a Donald Trump<\/a> ally, publicized the charges at a press conference in July. Later that month her office moved to drop the case, conceding that the damage resulted from flawed installation rather than anything Hearn did.<\/p>\n Trump, who had pressed for the prosecution, told reporters in the Oval Office on 3 August that Pirro had \u201cchoked\u201d in abandoning the vandalism charges, and \u201cfolded like an umbrella\u201d.<\/p>\n Edelman agreed to the dismissal in August but left open whether it would be with or without prejudice. Prosecutors argued for the latter, which would have allowed a future revival. Hearn\u2019s lawyers countered that the case was politically driven and lacked factual support, and warned of a risk of \u201charassment and bad faith\u201d if the door stayed open.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump spoke to reporters briefly earlier, as he departed the White House for Texas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n The president was asked about his comments to Time that Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh should\u2019ve voted against the board of governors (which unanimously voted to raise interest rates<\/a> earlier this month) and whether he had spoken to Warsh since the vote.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, I want him to vote the way he wants,\u201d Trump told reporters, adding: \u201cI personally would\u2019ve voted against the raise because we\u2019ve got inflation totally under control \u2026 The problem is interest rates will hurt our growth.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Sam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sam_Levine_Next_Gen.png\")
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