Fifth Circuit Rules ICE Must Provide Bond Hearings Within 90 Days

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Sosnava-Rodriguez v. Ortega that ICE cannot detain immigrants beyond 90 days without an individualized bond hearing, placing the burden on the government to show the detainee is an 'identified and articulable' danger or flight risk. The ruling binds Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi — the jurisdictions holding the largest immigration detention populations in the country — and marks a rare due-process check on prolonged detention from one of the more conservative federal appellate circuits.