Lawyers say that it’s been harder for their clients who have been detained by immigration officials in Maine to get a bond hearing from the U.S. Department of Justice. In December, U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris in Massachusetts ruled that certain New England immigrants in the government’s custody are entitled to bond hearings. Immigration court judges across the country have been instructed by their chief to disregard a similar declaration from a U.S. District Court judge in California, according to reporting from Reuters.