Increases in the number of detained immigrants have also generated a rise in the bond motions filed by detainees seeking release. Bond motions increased nearly four-fold between January and June 2025. Immigration Judges granted release under bond to 540 immigrants in January and by June this had risen to 2,536 or 4.7 times more granted release.

At the same time the median bond an immigrant was required to post which was $6,500 in January 2025 has fallen to a near-record low of $3500 in June 2025. This was in fact the smallest median bond required since December 2007. Much as they are used in federal and state criminal courts, bonds are typically required to help guarantee attendance at future Court hearings.

The amount of the required bond is particularly important since historically some detainees granted release are financially unable to come up with sufficient funds to post the amount of bond required so these individuals remain detained. Thus, a lower bond may mean more individuals will be able to raise the dollars required.

However, it is important to place these trends in a wider context. Of the more than 3.4 million individuals in the current Court’s backlog, only a tiny proportion are currently detained. As of June 2025, the 34,821 detainees represent just one (1) percent.

All of this may soon change. A July 8, 2025, memo just issued by ICE’s Acting Director announced a fundamental transformation in ICE policy. Under this changed policy immigrants according to ICE should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings” and not granted release in Court bond hearings.

We also have a public dashboard focusing just on bond activity. It provides greater detail on differences by the location of bond hearings, nationality, representation, immigration court hearing location, and case outcome after bond is granted.

Other highlights from data updated in TRAC's Immigrant Court Quick Facts tool for June 2025 show that:

• According to court records, only 1.49% of FY 2025 new cases sought deportation orders based on any alleged criminal activity of the immigrant, apart from possible illegal entry.

• Immigration Courts recorded receiving 431,343 new cases so far in FY 2025 as of June 2025. This compares with 735,327 cases that the court completed during this period.

• At the end of June 2025, 3,461,637 active cases were pending before the Immigration Court.

• At the end of June 2025, out of the total backlog of 3,461,637 cases, 2,209,097 immigrants have already filed formal asylum applications and are now waiting for asylum hearings or decisions in Immigration Court.

• Miami-Dade County, FL, has the most residents with pending Immigration Court deportation cases (as of the end of June 2025).

• So far this fiscal year (through June 2025), immigration judges have issued removal and voluntary departure orders in 50.5% of completed cases, totaling 360,459 deportation orders.

• Out of 3,219 Immigration Court cases in which some form of relief was granted in June 2025, asylum was granted for 2,286 immigrants (71.0%) following their merit hearings.

• Among Immigration Court cases completed in June 2025, immigrants in Colorado had the highest proportion ordered removed. New Jersey residents had the lowest proportion ordered removed.

• Only 21.6% of immigrants, including unaccompanied children, had an attorney to assist them in Immigration Court cases when a removal order was issued in June 2025.

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