COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) -- In a rare Saturday decision, a Georgia federal judge sided with an unnamed Mexican detainee at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., ordering the man to be granted a bond hearing.

U.S. District Judge Clay Land of the Middle District of Georgia didn't mince words in his 15-page order from the Middle District of Georgia. "The Executive Branch has broad discretion in the enforcement of the Nation’s immigration laws," he wrote. "That discretion, however, is not unbridled."

The petitioner, identified only as J.A.M., is a Mexican national who has been living in the United States for over 20 years without having been legally admitted into the country. He was arrested and sent to the Stewart Detention Center, awaiting deportation.

J.A.M. has been denied a bond he

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