Stand With Judges Rejecting Trump’s Mass Detention Policy

Across the country, an extraordinary wave of judges — more than 220 and counting, including at least 23 appointed by Donald Trump himself — are standing up for the Constitution and rejecting the Trump administration’s unlawful mass detention policy. These judges have ruled in over 700 cases that Trump’s effort to detain nearly all immigrants facing deportation, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for years, is a likely violation of federal law and basic due process.

Their decisions have freed parents, workers, longtime residents, and asylum seekers who were suddenly detained at workplaces, courthouses, or routine check-ins. Courts in red and blue states alike have slammed the Trump administration for trying to treat millions of longtime residents as “new arrivals” — a radical reinterpretation of immigration law that judges have called illogical and unlawful.

With federal immigration courts stripped of their traditional authority to grant bond, the federal judiciary has become the last safeguard for people caught in Trump’s mass detention dragnet. Judges from coast to coast are stepping up — insisting that the government cannot jail people indefinitely without individualized review or meaningful legal process.

Add your name to stand with the judges protecting due process, rejecting Trump’s extreme detention policy, and defending the rights and dignity of immigrant families nationwide.