US Supreme Court takes up case challenging Trump's immigration detention policy

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a challenge to the administration's policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without bond hearings during deportation proceedings.

• Justices accepted the case of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a Brazilian national arrested in Massachusetts in September 2025 after more than 20 years in the US.
• The July 2025 policy reversed a decades-old rule; most federal appeals courts rejected it, while the 5th and 8th circuits upheld it.
• Administration attorneys said the lower-court split disrupts the orderly administration of immigration law and creates an "unworkable patchwork" of enforcement.
• The ACLU, representing the plaintiffs, said the government's interpretation could affect millions of noncitizens.