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New State Court Policy of Holding Undocumented Defendants Without Bond is Rejected

By immigrationprof

A state district court judge in Kentucky ordered 17 Hispanic defendants to be held without bond, in part because they had no social security numbers. An appellate court judge said the no bond rulings violated the Kentucky and U.S. Constitutions, and ordered the prisoners released. Click here for Dan Kowalski’s blog entry on this story with a link to a Kentucky newspaper story.

Whenever there is discussion over giving state and local governments more power over immigration regulation, I think of abuses of undocumented immigrants at the state and local level.

KJ