NEW: More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin's mandatory detention policy

[AZJonnie]

1. Kind of amazing, viewed in this light, that Trump just continues to order ICE to do pretty much whatever the fuck

I wonder if it's even true that:

" Anyone in the U.S. who is an “applicant for admission” to the country is subject to “mandatory detention,” ICE argues. "

in the sense that it IS mandatory (i.e. previously under the law) that they are physically detained. And if so, detained until what point, exactly? I'm sure *some* are subject to detention, perhaps even "mandatory" detention if certain criteria are met, but I cannot imagine it's accurate to say the US locks up every single applicant for admission for some indeterminate amount of time, which is what Trump and ICE have recently decided they have every right, even an obligation, to do.

IOW aside from the question of whether people who have already been living here are rightly in the class of "applicants for admission", I'm not even sure that ICE was ever understood to have a directive to "physically detain" them in a mandatory kind of sense. Even if they did, I'd think ankle monitors have been in the past considered as meeting that obligation, no?

Trump thinks he's Lord God King, though, doesn't he?