Legal insights and guides on ICE detention and federal court remedies.
Your lawyer says the federal court has ordered a bond hearing. Then your family asks the next question: how much money will we need to bring our loved one home?…
Search for a habeas corpus success rate and you will find law firm pages quoting a single figure. Over 90 percent is a common one. Almost none say what was…
Your loved one is being held at Delaney Hall in Newark. Maybe the immigration judge said there is no jurisdiction to set bond. Maybe ICE says detention is mandatory. Or…
Your loved one is detained at Stewart Detention Center, the immigration judge will not give them a bond hearing, and then you discover something unusual: the federal court covering Stewart…
“Six months.” That number reaches almost every family with someone in ICE detention. Someone at the facility mentions it. A relative who went through this repeats it. A search result…
The immigration judge refused to hold a bond hearing. You have found a lawyer, gathered the custody paperwork, and decided that federal court is the next step. Then comes a…
Your loved one asked an immigration judge for bond. Instead of hearing evidence about family ties, work history, community support, or flight risk, the judge said something much more basic:…
The judge looked at the file and said it in one sentence: “I don’t have jurisdiction to set bond in this case.” No hearing. No argument about whether your loved…
If someone you love is being held by ICE, you can contact a habeas lawyer and ask for the detention situation to be reviewed even if you are not the…
A loved one can be in ICE detention under deeply troubling circumstances without the case automatically being ready for a federal habeas filing. The length of detention matters, but an…