President Donald Trump scored a major legal win on immigration at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night.

A federal judge agreed with the Trump administration that illegal aliens can be detained without bond while their immigration cases are being processed.

“Tonight our [Justice Department] attorneys secured yet another crucial legal victory in support of [President] Trump’s immigration agenda,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted to X Friday night.

“The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond – a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn,” Bondi said.

“We will continue vindicating President Trump’s law and order agenda in courtrooms across the country,” the AG added.

Tonight our @TheJusticeDept attorneys secured yet another crucial legal victory in support of @POTUS Trump’s immigration agenda.

The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond – a significant blow against activist judges who have been…

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) February 7, 2026

Eric Wessan, Iowa’s Solicitor General, called the win “enormous” for the Trump administration, noting that the Fifth Circuit was the first federal court to address Trump’s expedited removal efforts.

“ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump,” he posted to X. “The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump’s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration.”

“Illegal aliens may be detained and removed!” he emphasized.

Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, said the same in an X post. “Another big deal and seems obviously right – you can detain and hold illegal aliens rather than automatically releasing them on (insignificant) bond,” he said.

🚨🚨ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump. The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump’s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration. Illegal aliens may be detained and removed! Judge Jones, joined by Duncan. Judge Douglas dissents. pic.twitter.com/4K89hrb59T

— Eric W. (@EWess92) February 7, 2026

The ruling comes in contrast with activist judges releasing illegals while their cases are being processed through a bond option. The administration says this undermines general immigration enforcement and limits its ability to detain and remove illegals who are a public safety or national security concern — a key promise of Trump’s 2024 presidential run.

Deportation of illegal aliens has been a central piece of President Trump’s second term agenda. According to a December 2025 press release from the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration was responsible for 2.5 million illegal aliens exiting the United States since Inauguration Day, with 605,000 having been deported and 1.9 million leaving of their own volition.

According to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS), there were an estimated 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States as of January 2022. Pew Research estimates that an “all-time high of 14 million” illegal aliens were living in the United States by 2023 “after two consecutive years of record growth” in which 3.5 million aliens entered the country under Joe Biden.

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Russia launched a massive air attack on Ukrainian energy facilities overnight on Saturday, targeting electricity generation and distribution, Kyiv said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the overnight attack involved more than 400 drones and some 40 missiles of various types, targeting the grid, generation facilities and distribution substations.

Nearly four years into the war that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine’s battered energy sector is crumbling under the Russian strikes, accumulated wartime damage and bitterly cold winter weather.

“Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” Zelensky posted on X. “It is crucial that everyone who supports the trilateral negotiations respond to this. Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine.”

Moscow did not immediately comment on the attacks.

Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said the strikes hit two thermal power stations in Ukraine’s western regions and core elements of the Ukrainian electricity distribution system – substations and key electricity distribution lines.

“Russian criminals carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities,” Shmyhal said on the Telegram app. “Energy workers are ready to start repair works as soon as the security situation allows.”

The strikes were launched as temperatures began to drop and are forecast to fall to minus 14 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the coming days.

The new Russian attacks on the energy system also come just days after the latest round of the U.S.-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia on how to end the war.

Despite pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and rounds of talks, diplomatic efforts have so far brought no tangible results.

Since autumn 2025, Moscow has intensified its attacks on the Ukrainian power grid and other energy infrastructure, forcing frequent blackouts across Ukraine and plunging millions into darkness for hours.

Ukrainian officials said that emergency power cuts were introduced across the country. Shmyhal said the government asked Poland for emergency power imports to help the Ukrainian grid.

Regional officials reported attacks across the country, including in the western regions of Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv.

The Burshtyn and Dobrotvir thermal power plants in western Ukraine were hit, officials said.

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, said that equipment was damaged significantly at its thermal power plants in different regions. DTEK said it was the 10th attack on its thermal power stations since October 2025.

“Since Russians have been targeting energy facilities in various regions of our country, power outages may last much longer,” said Maksym Kozytskyi, the Lviv regional governor.

He said air alerts lasted more than six hours in the western Lviv region, close to the Polish border.

Polish authorities said two airports in southeastern Poland were suspended from operations as a precaution due to Russian strikes on nearby Ukrainian territory. The airports in Poland later resumed operations.

(Reporting by Olena Harmash; Editing by)