Trump Wins: Supreme Court Rules
Convicted Illegals Can Be Detained And Deported, by Tyler Durden, Via SaraCarter.com, 3/19/19.
The Supreme Court ruled
in favor of the Trump administration Tuesday, allowing federal
officials to detain and deport illegal
immigrants after
they have served their time in the U.S. for other crimes.
It was a 5-4 decision that reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which restricted when the immigrants
could be deported. For example, the 9th Circuit ruling stated that Immigration
and Custom’s Enforcement would have to detain the illegal immigrants
immediately or they would exempt from ever being detained.
The court’s majority
opinion was delivered by Justice Samuel Alito. Alito wrote that in the past, the court has
"held time and time again, an official's crucial duties are better carried
out late than never."
He
also rejected the argument from lawyers representing the immigrants involved in
the case that they are subject to mandatory detention only if they are arrested
"on the day he walks out of jail," giving the example that state and local officials "sometimes rebuff
the government's request that they give notice when a criminal alien will be
released."
Alito was joined by
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and
Brett Kavanaugh, according to the Associated Press.Justices Steven Breyer, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented.
Reading
his dissent from the bench, Breyer
warned the "greater importance in the case lies in the power that the
majority's interpretation grants to the government."
"It
is a power to detain persons who committed a minor crime many years before. And
it is a power to hold those persons, perhaps for many months, without any
opportunity to obtain bail," he wrote.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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