ACLU Challenges Widespread Denial of Due Process in Immigration Courts
Sep 23, 2025·Location: Boston, Massachusetts
The ACLU of Massachusetts and partner organizations filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the widespread denial of bond hearings to people detained by ICE. The complaint alleges that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice have systematically reclassified arrested individuals from statutory authority that allows bond requests to provisions that deny bond, violating constitutional and statutory rights and affecting thousands of people.
Sources
- New Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Widespread Denial of Due Process in Immigration Courts | American Civil Liberties Union
- New Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Widespread Denial of Due Process in Immigration Courts - ACLU of Massachusetts
- Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Practice of Turning Away Asylum Seekers at U.S. Southern Border - American Immigration Council
americanimmigrationcouncil.org·Oct 31, 2017·archived copy
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