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A legal battle over federal immigration detentions is taking hold in North Dakota, as a record number of emergency petitions move through the state’s federal courts.
According to Mary Steurer of the North Dakota Monitor, seven emergency petitions have been filed in the last three months alone, which is a sharp uptick coinciding with a 75% national increase in ICE detentions over the past year. The lawsuits challenge a controversial new policy that denies bond hearings to many individuals arrested in the interior of the U.S..
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