Posted on 03/19/2019 10:31:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Illegal immigrants with serious criminal records can be held without bail while awaiting deportation even if ICE didnt immediately pick them up when they were released from prison or jail, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The 5-4 decision marked another rejection for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the liberal panel that covers the countrys West Coast, and that has tested a number of legal theories on immigration law.
In this case, the 9th Circuit had ruled that under the law, if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately arrested someone released from a federal, state or local prison, they could be held without bond in the immigration detention system. But if ICE didnt immediately arrest them, the migrants must be given a chance to make bond.
The case turned on a phrase in the law that says the no-bail determination applies to someone picked up by ICE when the alien is released from prison or jail.
The lower court ruled when must mean the day of release.
But Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing the majority opinion, said that could create a new loophole for sanctuary cities, which often refuse to alert ICE officers when releasing people from their local prisons and jails.
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Thanks for the info :-)
Can we deport her while we're at it?
Two Wangs don’t make it right..........................
Understand that the Supreme Court doesn't usually take cases to affirm; they take cases to reverse. That skews statistics some. Also, during the Enron debacle of blatant prosecutorial misconduct it was the 9th Circuit that ripped the US Attorneys apart.
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