Law's Cassandra Burke Robertson on federal judges' response to immigration detention policy

Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges

The Conversation: Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law, noted that federal judges across the country are overwhelmingly rejecting the Trump administration’s attempt to impose automatic, indefinite detention on nearly all undocumented immigrants. She said that courts see the policy as unconstitutional executive overreach—and rulings could force bond hearings for thousands now held without due process.