Trump administration asks supreme court to back immigration detention policy

The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to let it detain people arrested in ⁠its immigration crackdown without ⁠a chance to seek ​bond, even if they have lived in the country for years. The administration made that request in a filing made public on Friday, asking the court to ⁠overturn a May decision by a federal appeals court, which had rejected its reinterpretation of a decades-old immigration law that now underlies its mass detention policy. The administration filed the appeal earlier this ⁠week, before the 6-3 conservative majority court handed it a pair of major wins on immigration policy on Thursday, including by ​allowing it to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian ‌and Syrian immigrants of protections against deportation. The ‌administration is asking the supreme court to review a ruling by a 2-1 panel of the Cincinnati-based sixth US circuit court of appeals, one of three appeals courts that have joined with hundreds of lower-court judges in rejecting its detention practice. Two other appeals courts have endorsed the administration’s policy, a fact the US solicitor general, D John Sauer, noted as he urged the justices to intervene and resolve a “critically important question of immigration law” that is fueling thousands of lawsuits by people challenging their detention. …