By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court<\/a> on Thursday agreed to review a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for immigrants as the government carries out a sweeping crackdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n The justices will consider whether immigrants who have been living in the U.S. have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation.<\/p>\n The case will test a key pillar of the Trump administration\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most appeals courts to have considered the issue have found that it violates federal law to detain immigrants, including those living in the U.S. illegally, without a bond hearing. Those decisions conflict with rulings by the 5th<\/a> and 8th<\/a> circuits, which held that immigrants accused of illegally entering and remaining in the U.S. must be detained while their deportation cases<\/a> are pending.<\/p>\n The high court agreed to hear the case of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a citizen of Brazil. Authorities say he entered the United States illegally two decades ago and applied for asylum in 2016. He sought a bond hearing after an immigration judge determined that his detention was mandatory following his September 2025 arrest.<\/p>\n He has never been charged or convicted of a crime, his attorneys said. The court is expected to hear the case in the coming months.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had urged the high court to take up a different but related case that involves the broader constitutional implications of the new policy.<\/p>\n Attorneys from the Republican administration argue the circuits\u2019 split is \u201cdisrupting the orderly administration of immigration law.\u201d They say the nation\u2019s courts have been inundated with thousands of petitions filed by immigrants challenging the government\u2019s legal interpretation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe result is an unworkable patchwork of inconsistent immigration enforcement, where aliens present without admission are subject to mandatory detention in some circuits but are entitled to bond hearings and often released in others,\u201d lawyers for the administration wrote.<\/p>\n The plaintiffs are immigrants represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which says hundreds of district court judges have joined most circuits in rejecting the Trump administration\u2019s new reading of the statutes. Plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers say the administration is trying to deny bond hearings for immigrants apprehended anywhere in the U.S. \u2014 no matter how long they\u2019ve lived in the country \u2014 rather than limiting the restriction to noncitizens stopped at the border.<\/p>\n \u201cMillions of noncitizens could be affected by the government\u2019s new interpretation,\u201d ACLU attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n The Trump administration says its new mandatory detention policy is legal under a 1996 immigration law. The policy change departs from the practices of prior administrations, which typically allowed most noncitizens without criminal records to request a bond hearing if they were arrested away from the border.<\/p>\n Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review a Trump administration policy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[188858,14,188859,74,76,75,2214,1695],"class_list":["post-481740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-bond-hearings","tag-immigration","tag-mandatory-detention-policy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}