AUSTIN, Texas — Lawsuits challenging immigration detention have recently flooded federal courts in Texas, which has the country’s highest number of migrant detainees.

They are part of a national wave of habeas corpus petitions that attorneys have launched over the past few months to counter the Trump administration’s efforts to keep migrants locked up and push them toward deportation.

And in some cases, attorneys have referenced the Laken Riley Act, the first bill President Donald Trump signed into law this year that requires the detention of undocumented migrants accused of committing even minor crimes, to help argue for their clients’ release.

This shift in legal strategy is a response to the federal government’s intensified immigration enforcement in the country’s interior — which

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