Federal judge says immigrants in Washington state have right to bond hearings

Some migrants being held in the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, have the right to request to be released on bond, under a federal judge's order that says a new Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for jailed migrants is unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Tiffany Cartwright's order, granting summary judgment for a class action case impacting people detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, said certain immigrants “are not subject to mandatory detention” and holding them without the possibility of a bond hearing violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The immigration judges at the Tacoma detention center have long denied bond requests by migrants. In July, Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, adopted that policy f