As President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort continues, his administration has taken a new approach: detaining more undocumented immigrants without a chance for a bond hearing.

This comes after the Board of Immigration Appeals – a panel governing immigration courts under the Department of Justice – issued a ruling in a case on Sept. 5 that stripped immigration judges from the authority to hold bond hearings or grant release to anyone who entered the U.S. without inspection at any time.

“Anyone in the U.S who has never come in on a visa or had permission to come in, no matter how long they've been here, is technically going to be mandatorily detained with no possibility of doing a bond hearing or asking for relief,” said Tammy Lin, adjunct professor and supervising attorney at the

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