The new policy change was announced in a memo last week from the acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. The memo was described to ABC News.

A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

The Trump administration is aiming to make illegal migrants ineligible for bond hearings as they contest their deportation cases in court, according to The Washington Post. All foreign nationals who unlawfully crossed the U.