Supreme Court to decide if Trump can hold migrants in mandatory detention without bond

CNN and NBC News report that the Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether the Trump administration may jail immigrants who entered the country illegally while their deportation cases proceed, without letting them ask a judge for release on bond. The outcome could validate or dismantle a central piece of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Arguments are expected early next year, with a ruling by late June, according to CNN, according to CNN · NBC News.

The dispute turns on whether a federal detention mandate covers only people stopped near the border or also long-term residents. Since last summer the administration has applied it broadly; CNN says that change pushed detention numbers from just under 38,000 to more than 65,000 and generated over 20,000 lower-court rulings, mostly against the government, a tally credited to CNN analyst Steve Vladeck. NBC News adds that most lower courts have sided with immigrants.

The case involves a Brazilian man, named by NBC News as Ricardo Aparecido de Cunha, who was stopped in Massachusetts; NBC News adds that a district judge ordered him freed and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. The ACLU calls the policy a "radical reinterpretation" of immigration law, NBC News says.

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