The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to approve its policy of detaining illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years without releasing them on bond.
The petition in Raycraft v. Lopez-Campos was docketed on June 24, but at time of publication did not appear on the court’s website because of a sensitive-filings rule. The court’s public information office provided The Epoch Times with a copy of the filed petition on June 26.
Adopted last year, the policy represents a change from how previous administrations interpreted a specific provision of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It also led to a flood of lawsuits from immigrants challenging detention….