A federal appeals court rules that the Trump administration cannot expand mandatory detention in a way that removes detained immigrants’ opportunity to seek release on bond. According to reporting, the court’s decision applies to immigrants held within the United States and bars the administration from denying them a bond hearing or comparable chance for release. The ruling comes after legal challenges to the administration’s detention policies, which aim to require or prolong detention for certain immigration-related cases. The court determines that the administration’s approach is not permitted under the governing legal framework and therefore cannot be implemented as described. The decision is a judicial check on executive immigration enforcement practices, limiting the administration’s ability to require detention without providing procedural access to release review. The outlets reporting the case agree on the core outcome: the appeals court rejects the administration’s expansion of mandatory detention insofar as it would prevent bond access for people detained inside the country.