Overview

• On July 8 acting ICE director Todd Lyons issued a memo requiring noncitizens to remain detained throughout their removal proceedings with bond hearings barred
• ICE recorded roughly 30,000 arrests in June but deported fewer than 18,000 people, triggering complaints of overcrowding and poor conditions across multiple states
• Congress has approved a $45 billion allocation over four years to expand ICE civil detention capacity toward 100,000 beds
• Mid-July class-action lawsuits filed in federal court seek to stop ICE courtroom arrests and restore bond eligibility on due process grounds
• Lyons’ memos also invoke a recent Supreme Court ruling to speed deportations to alternate countries with under 24 hours’ notice