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Home Front: Politix
Big Win for Trump as Appeals Court Blocks Liberal Judges from Releasing Migrants
2026-02-08
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s lawyers scored big on Friday when a Texas-based appeals court allowed officials to hold arrested migrants in detention so their migration cases can be quickly decided.

"ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump," said Eric Wessen, the Solicitor General in Iowa’s Attorney General’s Office. He added:

The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump’s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration. Illegal aliens may be detained and removed!

The 2:1 decision "is a big deal," said Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute.

"After reviewing carefully the relevant provisions and structure of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, the statutory history, and Congressional intent, we conclude that the government’s position is correct," the three-judge court decided.

One Biden-nominated judge argued that the policy is unfair because prior presidents did not use the law:
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