Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration, 5-4, on Detention of Immigrants Convicted of Crimes

They reversed a ruling from the, get this, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that you can't arrest an immigrant for deportation over a crime he's been convicted of unless you're Johnny On the Spot and arrest him right after he gets out of prison.

With sanctuary jurisdictions refusing to report immigrants to INS, that's tricky. But the leftists are willing to claim anything to keep the maximum number of criminal aliens in the US.

The Supreme Court disagreed, but all the liberals (except Roberts) voted to Make America Lawless Again.

he Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration by deciding federal officials can detain immigrants at any time for possible deportation after they have served their time in the U.S. for other crimes.

The 5-4 decision reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said officials have to detain these immigrants immediately or they are exempt from ever being detained.

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At the center of the case are immigrants Mony Preap and Bassam Yusuf Khoury, who are in the U.S. as lawful permanent residents. Both were convicted of crimes and served their sentences but were not detained by immigration authorities for removal proceedings until years after they were released from criminal custody.

The dispute focused on a federal law that says the Department of Homeland Security can detain immigrants convicted of certain crimes "when the alien is released" from criminal custody.

The 9th Circuit and the liberals on the court read the word "when" as "conveying immediacy," and claimed it means "very soon after." So if a criminal immigrant isn't detained for deportation within some undefined but short period of time after release from prison, he (get this) gets to stay in the US despite what the law says.

The majority said that "when" just means "in the case that" or "after."

The Washington Examiner is a trash cuck outfit. That article I linked makes sure it quotes the liberal dissenters to sell you on their interpretation, but fails to quote anything from the conservative majority so you can compare the arguments' strengths.

posted by Ace of Spades at 12:59 PM

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