For those granted bonds, the median bond set was $7,500. However, the bond amount varied greatly from a high of $20,000 for the median bond set in Denver, Colorado in September to a low of $1,500 in Bloomington, Minnesota. These September differences weren’t exceptional. For all of FY 2026, Denver’s median bond was the same at $20,000, while Bloomington’s median bond again was among the lowest at $3,000.

The largest number of bond hearings in both Denver and Bloomington involved immigrants from Mexico. This mirrored the national picture for FY 2026. Nationwide, Immigration Judges granted bond to more immigrants from Mexico – about a quarter of all bond grants. The next largest number were from Guatemala, followed by individuals from Venezuela.

Immigration Judges’ grant and denial rates on bond requests have varied greatly over the last quarter century. Twenty-five years ago, grants and denials were evenly split – 50/50. During the next four years bond denial rates rose sharply and peaked at 65.4 percent in FY 2005 – closely mirroring the denial rate of 66.0 percent reached at the end of FY 2026.

During this same period, the number of individuals in the Court’s backlog who were detained also rose and fell. The number of immigrants detained peaked in FY 2020 and then fell sharply because of Covid. Detention numbers at the end of FY 2025 and FY 2026 are about the same as those recorded at the end of the first Trump administration in FY 2020.

TRAC’s Immigration Court online free web tools will be updated this week through September 2026. These tools let anyone drill down and compare outcomes for your local Immigration Court with national figures.

For the number of individuals currently detained, view TRAC’s backlog tool and select “custody.” For detailed figures on bond hearings, outcomes, and median bond amounts granted by Immigration Judges use TRAC’s bond tool.

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