Immigrants who win court protections remain detained for months as ICE pursues third-country removals.

DHS regulations allow continued detention when “there is a significant likelihood of removing a detained alien in the reasonably foreseeable future.”

Immigration lawyers say federal detention practices have rendered court-granted protections for torture victims and persecuted people virtually meaningless.

WASHINGTON — R.V. had already spent six months detained at a facility in California when he won his case in immigration court in June.

He testified that he had fled his native Cuba in 2024 after protesting against the government, for which he was jailed, surveilled and persecuted. So, after being kidnapped in Mexico, he entered the U.S. illegally and told border agents he was afr

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