The top U.S. immigration judge has told her colleagues that they are not bound by a federal court ruling that declared the Trump administration cannot place thousands of people in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.

Federal appeals court sides with Trump administration in Mahmoud Khalil case, ruling a lower court judge lacked the authority to order the anti-Israel activist's release.

In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most visible enforcement effort seen in history while closing the door to

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Saturday it was appealing a ruling by a federal judge that put limits on tactics employed by U.S. immigration agents operating in Minneapolis.

The first year of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House was defined by clashes with the judiciary branch, as the president and his administration pushed forward with an aggressive immigration agenda.

Trump’s promise to prioritize deporting the "worst of the worst" has also fallen short. About 74% of the nearly 70,000 immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention as of December, the most recent data available, have no criminal convictions.

Most voters believe President Donald Trump's administration has gone too far in its immigration enforcement efforts and view his handling of the issue as negative amid a wave of clashes between federal agents and citizens protesting against their presence, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll.

President Trump declared he would cut off funds to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1. A court order in place in San Francisco since April forbids the Trump administration from doing so.

The Minnesota court ruling comes nearly two weeks after the Trump administration announced the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents to the Minneapolis area. The US Department of Homeland Security has called it its largest such operation in history.