The Union-Tribune reviewed dozens of San Diego federal judges’ opinions on these cases and found that the district court has, the vast majority of the time, either ordered ICE detention centers to immediately release the petitioners or ordered immigration courts to give them a bond hearing.
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Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
By sanctioning an unlawful deal, the government has created a legal impediment to petitioners' financial recovery.
But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.
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