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TODAY: A historic moment for LAJC: our first case before the U.S. Supreme Court in our 54-year history!
And the last immigration case to be heard by the Supreme Court during Trump’s presidency. https://vpm.org/news/articles/19379/scotus-to-consider-virginia-immigration-case-on-bond-eligibility
And the last immigration case to be heard by the Supreme Court during Trump’s presidency. https://vpm.org/news/articles/19379/scotus-to-consider-virginia-immigration-case-on-bond-eligibility
Today's case is a fitting way to cap the past four years of fighting this administration’s harmful policies, which we kicked off with our 2017 lawsuit Aziz v. Trump challenging Trump’s Muslim ban, filed one week after his inauguration. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/these-brothers-were-forced-out-by-trumps-executive-order-on-monday-they-moved-to-the-us/2017/02/06/0a150fec-e977-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html
What is the case about?
It is not uncommon for people who have been previously deported to eventually return to the U.S. seeking protection from new threats to their lives or liberty in their home countries.
It is not uncommon for people who have been previously deported to eventually return to the U.S. seeking protection from new threats to their lives or liberty in their home countries.
Today’s case: whether immigrants who illegally reenter the U.S. after a prior deportation & seek an asylum-like form of protection called “withholding of removal” have the right to ask a judge for release from detention while they fight their cases, which routinely take years.
This case will affect more than 3,000 people every year nationwide—a number that will likely grow as those who have been turned away at the border through the current administration’s unjust policies return in desperation to seek help once again.
