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Judge Blocks ICE Detention of 18-Year-Olds

Judge Blocks ICE Detention of 18-Year-Olds

Published

October 15, 2025

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A federal judge has blocked ICE from transferring unaccompanied minors to adult detention once they turn eighteen. The ruling halts a new policy offering twenty-five hundred dollars to minors who agreed to self-deport. Judge Rudolph Contreras said the plan violated a two thousand twenty-one injunction requiring less punitive alternatives for age-outs.

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