Posted on 03/07/2019 6:14:11 PM PST by reaganaut1
LOS ANGELES — Creating yet another roadblock to the Trump administration’s efforts to deport ineligible migrants, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that immigration authorities can no longer swiftly deport asylum seekers who fail an initial screening, opening the door for thousands of migrants a year to get another shot in the federal courts to win asylum in the United States.
The ruling broadens constitutional protections for undocumented immigrants at the border and opens a new legal gateway for some of them to appeal for permission to stay in the country, even when an asylum officer and an immigration judge have made a determination that they do not have a credible fear of persecution in their homeland.
“The historical and practical importance of this ruling cannot be overstated,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, who argued the appeal on behalf of a Sri Lankan migrant who had been turned away at California’s border with Mexico in 2017. He said the ruling “reaffirms the Constitution’s foundational principle that individuals deprived of their liberty must have access to a federal court.”
After dropping precipitously over five decades, the number of migrants intercepted at the southern border — the key indicator of how many undocumented people are entering the United States — is soaring again, driven by an influx of families from Central America fleeing violence and poverty. Immigration authorities received more than 99,000 requests for asylum interviews during the 2018 fiscal year, including more than 54,000 submitted at the southwest border.
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Great. Just what we need, millions of court cases like these each year.
There would be no way to process them all.
The SCOTUS should step in and stop this nonsense.
Tough. Do something about it.
The “federal appeals court” involved is the DESPICABLE 9th Circuit Court of Appeals if you already didn’t figure that out.
the title of this post is “9th Circus...” After that there is nothing to say.
The Left is intending to collapse the country. Ironic justice would be if they were among the first to die at the hands of the invaders.
The asylum loophole is now widely known and being flagrantly abused. Only Congress can close it....and they never will.
Expect another million at the Border next week
“Tough. Do something about it.”
OK, JackA, for starters, just go back where you came from.
Long, long opinion.
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4597698/vijayakumar-thuraissigiam-v-usdhs/
“A. Wallace Tashima, M. Margaret McKeown,
and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.”
Let me see who they are...
Who needs laws when you have activist judges who’ll ignore them or invent them?
True. But who will lead the charge? John Roberts, LOL!
By the time these nuisance cases wind there way through the system, hundreds of thousands of grifters will have slipped through the loophole. These are Alinsky tactics, to use our laws against us. Clog the system? The left couldn't be happier.
There needs to be a way to get a speedy ruling on these sorts of issues, or at least a freeze on processing until a definitive decision is made.
Instead SCOTUS will be busy pondering and consternating for weeks over whether kale can be labeled as spinach for purposes of interstate commerce.
All Clinton appointees.
At least they didn’t make it a nationwide ruling.
What can be done to stop this lunacy???????????
Yay! More illiterate unskilled labor for the construction industry and the farms!
More on welfare when they hit their 40s and can no longer work like 20 year olds!
More dimmmocrat voters!
More mancured lawns for the rich ‘pubbies!
Everybody wins! /s
Start prosecuting asylum seekers for felony perjury, then swiftly deport.
Since when isn’t an immigration court a ‘federal court’ ? And is the judge willing to waive court fees for every appealing rejected asylum seeker? Close the border until further notice. Then nobody can apply and no judge can cry while we deal with the backlog.
Illegals, so called Refugees and Criminals = 1
Law Abiding American Citizens (once again) = 0
9th Circus Court of Appeals.
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