Jenny Ter

Right.

So as you mentioned, we're seeing this growing trend of illegal immigrants getting released from ICE detention.

And it's because they're finding that filing habeas petitions, which are contesting their detention, is really a successful tool right now to get them out of ICE custody.

And

It does prolong, essentially, their time in the United States, according to some experts that we've spoken to.

And so when they're filing these, it moves their cases from the immigration courts to district courts, where judges are essentially more favorable to them and allow them to have more opportunities for relief.

In immigration courts right now, that's really not the case under the Trump administration.

What's happening as a result is when they're getting released, it's affording them more time in the United States.

That gives them the opportunity to actually find ways to get some form of status in the United States or to at least harden their claims to be here so they could have children in the years that it would take to adjudicate their cases.

In the cases where they're detained, things are usually speedier.

They don't want to hold people accountable.

For long periods of time, they don't want detention to be punitive.

So they try to adjudicate cases more quickly, like months or weeks.

And now you're talking about having an extended period here for years.

Yeah.

So in July, the Trump administration actually issued a directive to federal immigration authorities.

And they said that detention essentially had to be mandatory for millions of illegal immigrants.

And so that gave them the authority to detain more of them.

And more meant that

more were going to contest their detention there.