Report: ICE Won’t Allow Detained Illegal Aliens to Seek Bond
In other words, an end to the “catch and release” policy.
According to The Washington Post, ICE will not allow illegal aliens to seek bonds while detained.
In other words, an end to the “catch and release” policy.
In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years. Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration.
In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.
The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants “shall be detained” after their arrest, but that has historically applied to those who recently crossed the border and not longtime residents.
The Washington Post attempted to use feels to trick readers into hating the new policy. I have to share it before I continue:
Immigration lawyers say the new ICE policy is similar to a position that several immigration judges in Tacoma, Washington, have espoused in recent years, denying hearings to anyone who crossed the border illegally.
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle filed a lawsuit in March on behalf of detainees challenging the policy, arguing that their refusal to consider a bond hearing violated the immigrants’ rights.
The original plaintiff in the case, Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez, has lived in Washington state since 2009, works as a farmer and is the “proud grandfather” of 10 U.S. citizens, court records show. His eight siblings are U.S. citizens who live in California.
He also owns his home, where ICE officers arrested him in February for being in the United States without permission. In April, a federal judge in Washington found that he has “no criminal history in the United States or anywhere else in the world” and ordered immigration officers to give him a bond hearing before a judge. A judge denied him bond and he has since returned to Mexico, his lawyer said.
OK, um, so Vazquez has eight siblings who are U.S. citizens, and you mean to tell me that since 2009, he couldn’t even apply or start the process to gain U.S. citizenship?!
*bangs head on desk*
I researched the immigration process and found that the cost to initiate the citizenship process ranges from $380 to $760. According to one site, the process to become a citizen in 5.5 months. Yes, I know delays happen and the government often doesn’t work on time, so I imagine it could take longer.
Anyway!
ICE has had to release illegal aliens because of a lack of space.
However, the “big, beautiful bill” allocates “$45 billion over the next four years to lock up” illegal aliens “for civil deportation proceedings.
The Trump administration aims to increase ICE’s detention capacity to over 100,000 beds.
It also helps that the Trump administration has secured the border.
Earlier this month, Border Czar Tom Homan said the Border Patrol only encountered 6,070 illegal aliens in June.
The numbers are way down, so I don’t even think ICE needs that many beds!
Then again, considering the number of people who came in under former President Joe Biden, ICE might need all those beds.
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Good, we’ve already seen what happens when they get released into the country. You never see them again if they can help it.
5.5 months is more than a stretch. This man would be an F4 immigrant category, sibling of US citizen. If from Mexico, you have to have filed on Match 15, 2001 to be eligible today, a 24 year wait. The categories and dates are found here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2025/visa-bulletin-for-july-2025.html
But he did not file, so that’s on him. Assuming he came to the US in 2009, he’d be waiting another decade. The real people to be sorry for are those that filed legally in 2001 and thereafter, yet watched as the illegals flooded in and were given benefits galore.
So I guess it’s “racist” to enforce immigration law on an illegal Mexican immigrant who managed to avoid legal consequences for decades while raising a family, buying and owning his own farm, and ignoring multiple amnesties where he could have regularized his situation and become a citizen?
Last I heard it’s also illegal in Mexico for a non-citizen to stay without permission as well. In addition, it’s even illegal for a non-citizen to own any real estate – like – for example – a farm. And in Mexico the normal way they treat long-term illegal residents is deportation – no “catch and release” there. Short-term they do allow them to stay without permission – just long enuf to get to their northern border and illegally cross over to the US side where they’re no longer Mexico’s problem.
Funny how if you’re from a slightly less white country south of the US you can have more draconian anti-illegal immigration laws than the US and that’s just normal – but anything short of open borders in the US and that’s somehow genocide.
Non-citizens in Mexico must prove to the Mexican government that they have the means to support themselves. No welfare for non-Mexicans that live in Mexico. Non-citizens in Mexico cannot own any real estate. Non-citizens living in Mexico are prohibited from engaging in any political activism. Non-citizens in Mexico cannot vote in any local or federal level elections. And there’s probably a lot more that I’ve forgotten. But the above only applies if you are legally residing in Mexico. If you’re illegally living in Mexico you are subject to immediate deportation without appeal. No exceptions.
Funny how Mexico can have these draconian immigration laws on the books and nobody complains but anything short of complete open borders and amnesty for the millions of illegals that flooded over our borders during the Biden regime is what they demand of the United States.
Has a hard left, transgender, atheist, vegan district judge in Maui issued the TRO yet?
Finally!!! This has been the law for decades but was ‘waived’. Now it will be enforced. As a practical matter an illegal alien could use App to get $1K + free plane ride home while maintaining eligibility to reenter the USA lawfully at a future date. If caught by ICE they lose that option, get put on a ‘do not admit’ list and now will be detained until they are deported.
Create enough negative incentives and self deportation rates will accelerate. ICE just got a bunch of new $ and authority to hire 10K more personnel. I suspect when coupled with cutting off access to ‘welfare’ benefits these interior deterrence measures will be very effective. Assuming that folks like Mayor Bass don’t provide enough financial inducement to override them.
We should promulgate a policy that is a sort of “reverse chain” migration on that “do not admit” policy: no immediate family member of someone on the “do not admit” list may be allowed to enter the US. I would allow an exception for visiting a dying relative legally here (maybe) and for legal proceedings to kick out an immediate family member already here.
Now ICE can go after all the illegals and detain them until they appear before an administrative judge to rule on if they stay or go. That could take years due to 7 million ahead of you. Or you can self deport today via a provided flight back to your ho e country. “You make the call”! Brilliant
That was my thought. Nothing will encourage self-deportation more than the prospect of being in a detainment camp for a few years.
“Catch-and-release” has been an utterly lawless, insane and self-defeating policy, from the get-go. How long has this stupidity been official federal government policy? I assume since at least Bill Clinton’s tenure in office.
Releasing millions of illegal aliens into the interior of the country, after having issued them an utterly farcical and unenforceable command to appear in (heavily backlogged) immigration courts at some distant future date, simply accomplishes the aliens’ goal of residing in the U.S., unmolested by law enforcement.
Catch-and-release not only doesn’t disincentivize illegal alien entry, it encourages it.
lefty logic:
but since we allow them to vote
they are citizens so they need to get bond
yeah,,they’ll get bond
PAM BONDI!
Word to the wise: It’s possible those vegetables you’ve been buying from n.n aren’t what you think they are.
Abraham Lincoln of blessed memory has spotted Eisenhower has been spotted looking at his achievements and wondering if he will have to surrender his record to Trump in the near future.
Meanwhile a holocaust denying mega rich commentator named Tucker Carlson has been spotted screaming a Republicans in rage that the illegal immigration issue is an appetizer made by elites to distract them and that in 6 months Trump should have turned Blue cities in Blue States into El Dorado.
“Shall” be detained. That word, shall, is all you need to make it mandatory and not allow bond.
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