Tell Congress: Protect The Right To Due Process

Two federal appeals courts have now ruled that immigrants without formal legal status — even those who have lived in the U.S. for years, with no serious criminal record — can be detained indefinitely, with no bond hearing, while deportation proceedings drag on for months or years.

This is imprisonment without a hearing.

For years, authorities recognized that people arrested in the interior of the country had the right to argue for their release in immigration court. The Trump administration reversed that position last summer — and two circuit courts have now backed them up.

A judge, a hearing, and a chance to speak: these are the basics of American due process. Congress wrote the law. Congress can fix it.

Demand Congress pass legislation guaranteeing bond hearings for all immigrants in removal proceedings.