9th Circuit Limits California Judge’s Ruling On Mass Detention Of Illegal Aliens

By William Teach April 2, 2026 – 7:00 am

When I ran across this I thought “Didn’t I already read this? Didn’t I already blog this?” Nope. That was the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals shooting down a Minnesota judge on mass detentions, in a slightly different manner. And now
US appeals court halts nationwide rulings rejecting Trump’s immigration detention policy
A federal appeals court has put on hold a California judge’s nationwide rulings barring the Trump administration from detaining people arrested in its immigration crackdown without giving them a chance to seek release on bond.
A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th ?U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Tuesday largely paused, opens new tab those rulings while the administration pursues an appeal, saying the judge likely went too far by granting class action status on a nationwide basis to non-citizens facing mandatory detention.
The appeals court said the ruling declaring the detention policy unlawful would remain in effect only in the Central District of California, where the judge is based.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The ruling was the Trump administration’s latest appellate ?win after the 5th and 8th Circuits endorsed its detention policy. Other appeals courts are reviewing the issue, which the U.S. Department of Justice expects to eventually reach the Supreme Court.
So, basically, the Trump admin should build a detention center outside of U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes’ of Riverside, California outside her dominion. I’m not sure if she is ruling in the Western, Eastern, or Southern, or all 3, so, how about right outside LA County in Rosamond Anyhow, these wacko judges just keep ignoring the SCOTUS ruling on nationwide injunctions. They do not care. Their support of illegals overrides everything.
In Tuesday’s ruling, the 9th Circuit panel said the administration had made a “strong showing” that Sykes wrongly certified a nationwide class, saying claims concerning the validity of someone’s detention “must be brought in habeas proceedings in the appropriate district of confinement.”
The appeals court said Sykes also likely lacked jurisdiction to vacate the BIA’s decision, as the administration had already lodged an appeal of her December ruling, which stripped her of the ability to expand it.
The same judges keep over-reaching and keep getting smacked down.

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