Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

A federal judge in Nevada could soon decide whether two men — Victor Jacobo-Ramirez and Edgar Guevara-Alcantar, both denied bail under new immigration detention rules — could be the first of hundreds of detainees in the state to win access to long-denied bond hearings.

Their emergency legal petition, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, has launched a class action supported by the ACLU of Nevada and the UNLV Immigration Clinic.

As the judge considers the detainees’ petition, the outcome could soon open the door for many more detainees in Nevada who have been held without a chance for release under strict federal policies.

The court has asked the federal government to turn over information on hundreds of Immigration

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