Posted on 04/22/2025 12:47:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BREAKING: Gorsuch and Roberts Side with Liberal Justices — Illegal Alien Can Ignore Deportation Deadline If It Falls on a Weekend or Holiday
In yet another blow to immigration law enforcement, the Supreme Court today ruled 5–4 in Monsalvo Velázquez v. Bondi that illegal aliens granted voluntary departure under federal immigration law can remain in the United States past their court-ordered departure deadline—if that deadline happens to fall on a weekend or legal holiday.
Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion, joined by Justices Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, effectively rewriting the meaning of a “60-day” voluntary departure period to accommodate the convenience of deportable individuals, not the rule of law.
At the center of the case was Hugo Monsalvo Velázquez, a Mexican national who entered the U.S. illegally nearly two decades ago and was ordered to leave within 60 days.
His departure deadline fell on a Saturday, but instead of leaving, he filed a motion to reopen his case on the following Monday.
Both the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that he had missed his deadline. But the Supreme Court has now overruled them, injecting ambiguity into what was once a firm immigration deadline.
In a strong dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas—joined by Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, and Barrett—blasted the majority for stretching the law beyond its clear terms, arguing that “60 days means 60 days,” not “whenever the alien gets around to it.”
“The merits question in this case—whether petitioner left the United States within “60 days” after October 12, 2021— is straightforward,” Alito wrote in his opinion...
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Fixed it for you.
Its quite clear that the Supreme clowns plan to let illegals stay in the country...
When the law doesn’t do its job, violence will surely follow. Look to history. I am not advocating violence but this is going to boil over soon if they continue this charade...
“Roberts clearly does not believe our country should have or maintain any borders whatsoever. “
Roberts has a different master than the American people and the Constitution.
“Not the Bee??!!”
That is what I thought when I first read the headline.
Apparently!
Its really sad to see so many Freepers getting worked up over nothing.
It seems like a really ‘nothing’ thing the Supreme Court apparently needed to be involved in..
Many times my boss would order me to report Monday to a job site thousands of miles away.
If it meant Saturday travel, that was on me.
GORSUCK’s and ROBERTS SUCK at having WISDOM!! They have NONE!! BEAN BRAINS LIKE THE REST OF THE GIRLS!!
The need to have common treatment of deadlines is important yet whether it is Saturday or monday is not significant.
Your defense of the Swamp Supreme Court is duly noted..
They missed the Stolen election of 2020 deadlines on purpose..
“A one day extension to go past the weekend? This is not a big deal.”
Then why is the SC bothering with the case? Unless they have just decided that it should be effectively impossible to deport more than a few illegals and are determined to make things as difficult for the administration as possible.
Apparently!
Clarence Thomas is always right. Always.
The 3 Trump justices are a huge disappointment to say the least.
President Trump and/or his cabinet and worker bees, should just ignore the courts and fly people out at will without notice. The same way they were flown in.
Can I use this precedent for court orders?
Then why did SCOTUS take up the case?
Maybe thats how some judges will see it. Maybe the way I think it will be used will be how some other judges see it.
yep it’s rigged
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