U.S. top court leaves intact ruling against Central America asylum seekers
Source: Reuters
Mon Apr 17, 2017 | 9:52am EDT
By Andrew Chung | WASHINGTON
The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a turbulent debate over illegal immigration on Monday, turning away an appeal by a group of asylum-seeking Central American women and their children who aimed to clarify the constitutional rights of people who the government has prioritized for deportation.
The families, 28 women and 33 children ages 2 to 17 from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, had hoped the justices would overturn a lower court's ruling preventing them from having their expedited removal orders reviewed by a federal judge.
That Philadelphia-based court said the status of the families, all apprehended in Texas and later held in Pennsylvania, was akin to non-citizens who are denied entry at the border and they were not entitled to a court hearing to challenge that decision.
Immigration has become an even hotter topic than usual in the United States since President Donald Trump took office in January. His administration has ordered construction of a border wall with Mexico intended to curb illegal immigration, and plans to expand the number of people targeted for expedited removal, a process that applies to non-citizens lacking valid entry documents.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-asylum-idUSKBN17J11W
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current supreme court, bodes ill for all POC, women, LGBTQ, liberals and progressives. Big fight on our hands. And that is all we have left is fight. I'm using it. Everyone that spouts trump regime BS gets a real large piece of what is on my mind with what I'm faced with everyday in the "great again, ameriKKKa"......sad part is, they are faced with extinction also, just too stupid and blinded by hate to realize it....
WAR HAS NEVER HAD WINNERS. In the end we are all diminished by the carnage and bloodshed of innocents. Too many want to adhere to the john wayne BS about warriors being heroes when they are no more than pawns being pushed around on a geo-political chess board by sociopaths disguised as world leaders.
