Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration policy denying bond hearings to asylum seekers.
US District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled that people who are detained after entering the US to seek protection are entitled to bond hearings and the chance to be released from custody under the Constitution.
The policy would have effectively blocked concerted efforts by immigration lawyers and immigrant rights advocates to push for bond hearings for detained asylum seekers.
Michael Tan, a senior staff attorney with ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, celebrated the ruling Tuesday as having "forcefully rejected" the administration's efforts.
"The court forcefully rejected the Trump administration's bid to arbitrarily jail asylum-seekers without a hearing," Tan said in a statement.