A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday ruled that the Trump administration cannot indefinitely detain migrants facing deportation without providing bond hearings within 90 days, a decision that directly challenges the president’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that prolonged detention without judicial review violates constitutional due process guarantees, siding with civil rights groups that had sued the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The ruling comes as ICE confirmed it arrested more than 10,000 people in a five-day span at the end of June, marking one of the sharpest surges in deportation operations under President Donald Trump’s second term. The agency’s rapid expansion of enforcement has drawn criticism from immigrant advocacy organizations, which argue that the administration is circumventing legal safeguards to expedite removals. The court’s decision requires ICE to schedule bond hearings for detained migrants within three months of their arrest or release them pending deportation proceedings.

In a separate but related development, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate 19 intelligence officers—including CIA and National Intelligence Directorate staff—who were fired in 2024 for their involvement in diversity initiatives. The ruling, issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, marks a rare legal rebuke to the administration’s personnel policies and signals growing judicial scrutiny of executive overreach in both immigration and civil service matters.

The appeals court’s decision on migrant detention was immediately condemned by administration officials, who vowed to seek further legal avenues to uphold their enforcement priorities. “The court’s ruling undermines our ability to secure the border and protect American communities,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. Legal experts, however, noted that the decision aligns with a series of recent rulings limiting the government’s authority to detain non-citizens without due process, including a June 2026 Supreme Court order requiring bond hearings for asylum seekers.

The ruling also intersects with broader political tensions, as reports emerged that a decorated U.S. Air Force major was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after publicly calling for Trump’s impeachment. The officer, Maj. Jason Watson, remains in military custody pending an investigation by the Air Force, which has not yet commented on the charges. Meanwhile, a government watchdog report revealed that the Secret Service failed to monitor 102 local radio transmissions about the gunman who attempted to assassinate Trump at a 2024 rally in Pennsylvania, raising fresh questions about security lapses within federal law enforcement agencies.

As the Trump administration faces mounting legal and political challenges, the appeals court’s decision on migrant detention stands as the most consequential judicial setback to its immigration agenda in months, with potential implications for thousands of individuals currently held in ICE facilities across states like Texas and Louisiana.

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