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Justice Kagan denies emergency appeal to halt deportation of Mexican nationals claiming asylum from cartel
Fox News ^ | April 17, 2025 5:59pm EDT | Jasmine Baehr , Shannon Bream , Bill Mears

Posted on 04/17/2025 3:33:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Kagan denies migrants’ request to delay deportation, letting removal proceed without Court review

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday denied an emergency appeal by four Mexican nationals facing deportation. The request asked the court to temporarily block their removal so they could file a formal petition for review. 

Kagan denied the application without comment and did not refer the matter to her colleagues on the court.

The petitioners, Fabian Lagunas Espinoza, Maria Angelica Flores Ulloa and their two sons, were ordered to report to immigration officials on April 17. Their legal team argued they face cartel violence if returned to Mexico.

According to their court filing, the family fled Guerrero, Mexico, in 2021 after being threatened by the Los Rojos cartel. The petition stated that cartel members demanded the family vacate their home within 24 hours or be killed.

It also included details of past violence against extended family members, including beatings and threats following refusals to cooperate with the cartel.

The family entered the U.S. unlawfully and sought asylum and an immigration judge denied their claims.

That ruling was upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals in November 2023, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision in February 2025. A temporary stay of removal was lifted on April 7.

The emergency appeal to Justice Kagan argued that the lower courts and immigration authorities failed to consider credible evidence and due process claims.

Under Supreme Court procedures, each justice handles emergency appeals from a specific circuit. As the justice assigned to the Ninth Circuit, Kagan had the authority to act alone or refer the case to the full court.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; deportation; justicekagan; kagan; scotus
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1 posted on 04/17/2025 3:33:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

blind squirrel—nut...


2 posted on 04/17/2025 3:34:47 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I will be going to Mexico to have my teeth worked on.


3 posted on 04/17/2025 3:35:28 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Ciudad Juárez?


4 posted on 04/17/2025 3:37:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wait, who, what?


5 posted on 04/17/2025 3:40:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay, who’s impersonating Kagan? And Bravo!


6 posted on 04/17/2025 3:43:24 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ideally, this order should impact Boasberg’s contempt ruling.


7 posted on 04/17/2025 3:44:38 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Brian Griffin
I will be going to Mexico to have my teeth worked on

I considered doing that. A good friend of mine goes to Los Algodones for his dental work.

So I did some research, digging into related Internet forums and reviews. There are plenty of happy customers, but there are also far too many who add to their reviews months later when the crowns leak.

8 posted on 04/17/2025 3:45:12 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, spread it all over the media that they’re being sent back. They won’t last a week before the cartel gets them.


9 posted on 04/17/2025 3:46:21 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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I suspect the Left would love to see some deportees brutally murdered, to use as an excuse to stop deportations.

10 posted on 04/17/2025 3:46:48 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Say what? Illegals can LEGALLY kicked out of the country?? This should decide it, dudden it?


11 posted on 04/17/2025 3:46:57 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: Bullish

Yeah, who kidnapped Kagan and replaced they/them with this surgically altered imposter?


12 posted on 04/17/2025 3:47:07 PM PDT by daler
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To: Bullish

Now the commies are going to go after Kagan for not being commie enough


13 posted on 04/17/2025 3:47:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kagan is the most reasonable of the three lefties. That’s not to make her out as some great hero or anything, but if any one of them will break ranks it will be her. She’s at least been cordial in the past, to Trump when she’s attended state of the union addresses.


14 posted on 04/17/2025 3:48:31 PM PDT by mbrfl
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I suspect the Left would love to see some deportees brutally murdered, to use as an excuse to stop deportations.

Alex Jones has been predicting false-flags atrocities just like that. They are getting more desperate by the day.

15 posted on 04/17/2025 3:49:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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Kagan is the most reasonable of the three lefties.

Agreed. Actually, RGB was like that.

16 posted on 04/17/2025 3:49:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“the family fled Guerrero, Mexico, in 2021 after being threatened by the Los Rojos cartel.”

Mexico is a fairly large country, move somewhere else inside your own country, not ours.


17 posted on 04/17/2025 3:51:27 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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The thing is, we have a process for removal (called “due process”. Go figure.) that has to be followed. If the process has been followed, you don’t get to have the ruling overturned just because you don’t like the outcome. Kagan at least is competent enough to understand that. Brown and Sotomayor are not, which is disgraceful coming from the highest court in the land.


18 posted on 04/17/2025 3:55:00 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kagan? Wow! I am surprised.


19 posted on 04/17/2025 3:57:32 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Amy Coney Barrett is in the “lefty” camp now.


20 posted on 04/17/2025 3:57:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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