Supreme Court limits the ability of illegal immigrants to appeal deportation decisions; SCOTUS Rules 5-4 Against Illegal Alien Seeking to Evade Deportation from U.S.

Supreme Court limits the ability of illegal immigrants to appeal deportation decisions:

Illegal immigrants have only limited grounds to appeal deportation orders to the federal courts, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The 5-4 decision applies to cases where someone has been ordered deported but then seeks special relief from immigration authorities.

The justices said the immigration authorities’ decisions on the facts of the case are final and cannot be appealed to federal courts. Courts can still weigh in on cases involving matters of law.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing the majority opinion, said the way Congress wrote the law governing relief from deportation bars court “review of any judgment regarding the granting of relief.”

“This plainly includes factual findings,” she wrote.

The case before the justices involved Pankajkumar Patel, an illegal immigrant who’s been in the U.S. now for nearly three decades. About 15 years ago he sought to try to legalize, but while doing so falsely checked on a driver’s license application in Georgia that he was an American citizen. —>READ MORE HERE

SCOTUS Rules 5-4 Against Illegal Alien Seeking to Evade Deportation from U.S.

The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday ruled in a 5-4 opinion against an illegal alien who sought to appeal his order for deportation before a federal appellate court.

Pankajkumar Patel, an illegal alien from India who arrived in the U.S. with his wife in the 1990s, applied for discretionary adjustment of status with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency in 2007. The adjustment of status would have rewarded Patel and his wife with green cards.

USCIS denied Patel’s application, having found that he previously falsely claimed to be an American citizen on a Georgia driver’s license application. When the federal government sought to deport Patel and his wife years later, he again applied for adjustment of status and argued before a federal immigration judge that he accidentally checked the “citizen” box on the Georgia driver’s license application.

The federal immigration judge denied Patel’s effort to avoid deportation and ordered him and his wife removed from the U.S. When Patel appealed the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, they dismissed his case. —>READ MORE HERE

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