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This created kind of like the perfect storm as immigration judges were denying them bond, which is what the Trump administration really wanted here is that they wanted bond to be used very sparingly.

They didn't want immigration judges to just release people constantly like what was happening before under the Biden administration.

It wasn't just people being released at the border.

It was also from ICE detention.

Yeah, so we spoke with the U.S.

attorney in the District of Arizona about this because he's seeing a flood of these cases, these habeas petitions being filed that the government has to respond to.

And in a lot of cases, he said, they are losing to these illegal immigrants and they're getting granted bond in these district courts.

He said those cases, you know, they were seeing maybe 10%.

before Trump came into office, and now they're at nearly 1,000 of habeas cases that have been filed.

In our interview, he actually called it a, quote, systemic burden because he's had to move a lot of personnel from, you know, criminal cases and other cases that are ongoing that need attention to just looking at these habeas petitions and finding ways to respond because there's just too many for them to handle.

Right.

So Homan came out Wednesday morning and said there's been progress in his leadership down there in Minneapolis, saying that they're drawing down 700 of those federal agents that have been deployed.

So it's about a little less than a third of the force that has been there.

So leaving about 2,000 agents and officers on the ground.

And this was a result of deals that he said have been brokered between

the federal government and local sheriffs who have agreed to now cooperate with ICE and let them into jails to take inmates who are here illegally into ICE custody in the hopes of deporting those people.

This is something he said is being done at an unprecedented level.

So we're trying to figure out how this is all developing.

But it sounds like within just nine days of Holman touching down there, there's been a lot of progress.

So I spoke with the head of the Minnesota Sheriffs Association about this, about those conversations that the sheriffs, those local sheriffs have been having with the federal authorities.