The Trump administration is seeking to keep illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal custody by denying them bond hearings, according to multiple reports. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons wrote in an agency memo distributed earlier this month that while migrants without lawful status have historically been allowed to request a bond hearing

The Trump administration has just launched a sweeping new immigration crackdown, aiming to deny bond hearings to undocumented immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Under a new ICE memo by acting Director Todd Lyons,