Chang v. Noem

Carlos Chang is detained in the immigrant detention facility in McCook, Nebraska. He is one of many immigrants nationally who have been denied a bond hearing based on the recent adoption of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy that asserts nearly all detained immigrants are subject to mandatory detention and ineligible for release on bond.

Despite a federal judge declaring the mandatory detention practice unlawful in a class action lawsuit brought by the national ACLU, the Southern California ACLU affiliate, and other immigrants’ rights advocates, Chang and other immigrants continue to face indefinite detention with no opportunity for a bond hearing while their immigration cases proceed.

We filed a lawsuit on his behalf, seeking a court order directing immigration officials to either release Chang or schedule a bond hearing.