HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The detention of thousands of immigrants without criminal convictions and the lack of bond at immigration hearings during the Trump administration violates their civil rights, immigration lawyer Katie Lincoln-Goldfinch says.

On this episode of Border Report Live, Lincoln-Goldfinch, who is based in Austin, Texas, discusses the 71% of detained immigrants who have no criminal convictions, according to the latest data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

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Lincoln-Goldfinch talks with South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez about a recent federal judge who says that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was violating immigration law and denying the due process rights of a Colorado man by denying him a bond hearing. She says this is a breakthrough moment and could signal a change to prevent all immigration courts from denying bond hearings.

The Trump administration earlier this year declared an end to bond hearings.

Lincoln-Goldfinch co-founded VECINA, a nonprofit connecting volunteer attorneys with asylum seekers, and founded El Bus Sin Fronteras, a mobile outreach project serving immigrant communities across Texas.

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