CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by federal agents this year could be eligible for release on bond after a ruling from a federal judge in California last week, the ABC 7 I-Team has learned.

That ruling was over a controversial policy change implemented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this summer forcing mandatory detention for many people arrested by immigration agents, stripping people detained of their right to a bond hearing before an immigration judge.

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Attorneys tell the I-Team that "mandatory detention" policy change went against decades of legal precedent.

For Chicago-area father Ramiro Cabrera, that DHS policy kept him in an ICE detention center for 41 days, until a federal judge ord

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