Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the past year, which make previous volumes seem almost like nothing:

So far this year, immigrants are filing on average more than 200 of these cases, known as habeas petitions, daily across the country, with California and Texas accounting for about 40% of new cases, a ProPublica analysis of federal court filings found. To keep tabs on this historic rise, ProPublica is publishing a habeas case tracker.