( August 12, 2026, 9:34 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court’s September 2025 summary judgment ruling directing the federal government treat a class of detained aliens already within the United States during their removal proceedings as detained pursuant to Section 1226 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which allows for release on bond, rather than Section 1225(b)(2)(A), which requires mandatory detention, and which the federal government began in 2022 applying to aliens on either side of the United States border....