Four court rulings are challenging a key tenet of Trump’s immigration policy

Four appeals courts have ruled against the administration’s policy of mandatory detention, and two have backed it. The Supreme Court could hear the issue next.

The Trump administration was handed another immigration policy loss when a fourth appeals court struck down its practice of indefinitely locking up people arrested by immigration authorities and denying them bond regardless of how long they’ve been in the U.S.

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