Federal appeals court compares Trump migrant detention policy to Japanese American internment

A Trump administration policy to detain migrants on bond without a chance for release harkens back to the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II, a federal court said Thursday.

In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's mass detention policy, a major part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda.

"Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history," the court wrote.