Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb 6 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court upheld on Friday the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.

A divided federal appeals court upheld on Friday the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.

More than 300 federal judges have stopped the administration's "mandatory detention" policy. Hundreds of judges have rejected the Trump administration's efforts to detain immigrants indefinitely as they contest hardline deportation efforts, including judges nominated to the bench by President Donald Trump.