New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Trump administration's intensified immigration detention campaign has pushed federal courts across the United States into an unprecedented workload, as thousands of detainees challenge their arrests and seek emergency relief, according to a report by POLITICO.

The report, based on a review of thousands of ICE detention cases and interviews with detainees, lawyers and judges, found that federal judges have ruled against Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention tactics more than 16,000 times over the past year. About two-thirds of those rulings were linked to a July 8, 2025, ICE memo that significantly expanded the government's interpretation of a 1996 immigration detention statute.

The memo, issued by the...