Opinion ID: 3150212
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Periodic Hearings

Text: The record shows that many class members are detained well beyond the six-month mark: Almost half remain in detention at the twelve-month mark, one in five at eighteen months, and one in ten at twenty-four months. Petitioners argue that due process requires additional bond hearings at six-month intervals for class members who are detained for more than six months after their initial bond hearings. We have not had occasion to address this issue in our previous decisions, and it has been a source of some contention in the district courts. See, e.g., Vivorakit v. Holder, No. 14-04515, 2015 WL 4593545, at  (N.D. Cal. July 30, 2015); Castaneda v. Aitken, No. 15-01635, 2015 WL 3882755, at  (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2015). The district court here did not address this proposed requirement. For the same reasons the IJ must consider the length of past detention, we hold that the government must provide periodic bond hearings every six months so that noncitizens may challenge their continued detention as “the period of . . . confinement grows.” Diouf II, 634 F.3d at 1091 (quoting Zadvydas, 533 U.S. at 701).