Supreme Court will consider Trump’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

By: Tim Henderson

Outlets: Stateline

Published: October 1, 2026

Words: 641

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago


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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case challenging a Trump administration policy that threatens millions of immigrants with mandatory and indefinite detention while fighting their court cases.

The policy, put into place in July 2025, requires people picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to be kept incarcerated without bond if those immigrants crossed a border illegally — even if the crossing was decades …

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