Posted on 05/11/2023 1:07:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a transgender Guatemalan woman who is fighting deportation on the grounds that she would face persecution if returned to her native country.
The court’s unanimous decision in favor of Estrella Santos-Zacaria gives her another chance to argue that immigration officials were wrong to reject her bid to remain in the United States.
Lawyers for Santos-Zacaria, now in her mid-30s, said she first fled to the United States after being raped as a young teenager and threatened with death because of her gender identity in a country that has targeted the LGBTQ community.
But a U.S. immigration judge found that she did not make a strong enough case that she would face persecution if sent back to Guatemala.
The issue at the Supreme Court was more technical, whether federal immigration law was flexible enough to allow her another day in court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against her on that point, but other appellate courts had ruled in favor of immigrants on the same issue.
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Disgraceful ruling by the USSC.
Mental illness is.a.human right?
He has zero evidence of this, and NGOs have been instructing migrants to make these claims since 2015 when Obama put this new rule in place.
That illegal alien is just a man pretending to be a woman!
SCOTUS aka Supreme Clowns of the United States
If she has a pee-pee, out the door.
SCOTUS also issued an opinion (by Gorsuch) which stated that California could regulate how pork is raised if it is sold in their state. Thomas even signed on to the opinion. It was an very convoluted opinion and hard to make sense of even after reading portions of it a couple of times. Get ready for pork prices to rise even more.
One of the problems with illegals (among many) is that they are not in the immigration system. If granted asylum, this person would have to go through the classes and oaths to become a citizen; although not a panacea, this process can at least give the person some form of accountability for assimilation, and may even inspire patriotism (unless of course, the classes are now woke as well).
You don't understand the law. The ruling was about persecution, not trans rights.
I’m in favor of anyone being able to make a case before a Judge on principle.
So I’m okay with a ruling that someone can make a case.
I do understand the law.
You do not understand how trannies are going to use it against everyone else claiming persecution.
Thomas and the other conservative judges didn't see anything in the Constitution about raising pigs, thus allowing California to make a stupid law.
My experience around trannys is they cannot perform many occupations because they spend all their time trying to be someone they cannot biologically be.
Here is an explanation of the Pork Producers opinion from law professor Jonathan Adler at Reason:
Another W for the Federalist Society.
‘Mental illness...?’
No but not being murdered for being ill is.
Tough. Get help in your own country.
We’ve got too man freaks and loons here already.
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