Federal immigration judges are increasingly denying bond to detained immigrants under the Trump administration's mass deportation push, with attorneys characterizing courts as a "deportation machine." A 2025 Trump administration memo and subsequent Board of Immigration Appeals ruling changed policy to deny bond hearings to those who entered without inspection, affecting over 1 million cases annually. Migrants with community ties and clean records are languishing in detention with limited recourse, while some courts have challenged the no-bond policy as unconstitutional.