Immigration Bonds in the Second Trump Administration by Joseph Gunther and Brandon Marrow

Check out this report. It finds that "the chances of a noncitizen being granted bond by an immigration judge have declined far more drastically since early 2025 than has been previously reported. Our analysis of public immigration court data shows that 2025 had the lowest bond grant rate on record, with the first four months of 2026 lower still. . . .

Beginning in mid-2025, . . . an ICE directive and a series of Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decisions reframed decades of precedent to reclassify the majority of detained noncitizens as ineligible to even seek bond before an immigration judge." (footnote omitted).