Posted on 12/20/2018 6:47:44 PM PST by 11th_VA
A three-judge federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of the Trump administration in its effort to deport about 100 Iraqi immigrants convicted of crimes years ago.
The panel from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 2-1 Thursday that the lower court that ordered the government to free the Iraqis did not have the jurisdiction to make that decision.
The ruling said deportation orders are up to the attorney general and immigration judges.
The dissenting judge wrote that the lower court did have the proper jurisdiction. She said the Iraqis showed evidence they would be persecuted or tortured if sent back to Iraq and that the administration did not contest that evidence.
The Iraqis still have about six weeks before the appeals court order takes effect.
The 100 Iraqis, who have criminal records or overstayed their visas, had been allowed to live in the United States before the Trump administration began rounding them up for deportation to Iraq.
Eight were sent back before Baghdad said it did not want any more.
The lower court judge ordered the remaining Iraqis freed last month, saying the Trump administration lied when it said the Iraqi government was willing to take back its citizens.
Why was this even debatable? :)
Can anyone remember a president with this many wins for Conservatism in 24 hours?
See, see! These judges were Russians! Collusion! Impeeeeaccch!!!
Trump has abdicated some immigration policy to the federal courts for the last two years .
She was a Lefty first nominated to the courts by Rapin Bill Clinton, but Michigan's Senator Spence Abraham refused to clear her nomination.
The Smirking Chimp later surrendered to Michigan Communists Stabencow & Carl Lenin in a Swamp deal to get their pet Lefty on the bench.
The Honorable Alice Moore Batchelder [Ronald Reagan and Grabby Poppy judge] and the Honorable Jeffrey Stuart Sutton [Smirking Chimp judge] ruled against the invaders.
“Eight were sent back before Baghdad said it did not want any more.”
WE don’t want them. They are YOUR problem.
How huge is this ?
You can’t be serious. The lower courts have being to usurp Presidential authority — Trump has abdicated nothing.
Opps “have been trying to”
ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, left, and colleagues speak outside the U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati, April 25, 2018. An appeals panel was to hear arguments over a Trump administration bid to deport Iraqi nationals; on Dec. 20, 2018, the panel ruled in favor of the administration.
‘judge’ Sullivan will not take this lying down.
Some say he is preparing to call the Panel: “TRAITORS”
(to his very biased, predetermined, DNC/Globalist/DS cause).
And we still have all the trolls finding reasons to dump the best president ever.....
Judge Sullivan should take them lying down!
“did not have the jurisdiction to make that decision”
Higher courts need to use that phrase a lot more often.
I’ll bet every one of these ACLU, virtue-signaling a-holes lock their doors at night.
“She said the Iraqis showed evidence they would be persecuted or tortured if sent back to Iraq.”
But it is okay by her if the Iraqis kill and maim Americans here.
Outstanding news.
Of course he has by participating as a helpless defendant while the security problem continued
Bagdad didn’t want anymore? Well that’s too bad.
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