Two green-card holders launched a legal challenge to the federal government’s immigration detention policies.
By Catholics for Catholics
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to listen to an appeal by President Donald Trump’s administration in a case involving the validity of subjecting certain convicted immigrants with pending deportation trials to lengthy incarceration, without bond hearings permitting them to seek a release on bail.
The court’s new decision in Genalo v. Black took the form of an unsigned order, according to a story by The Epoch Times. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision.
In this process the high court will ponder whether there is a limit on how long the federal government may keep a person under the Immigration and Nationality Act without a bond hearing.
In this case, two legitimate permanent residents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after criminal convictions.
Carol Williams Black was in immigration detention for about seven months. Keisy G.M. was in jail for approximately 21 months.
Nevertheless, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that under Section 1226 (c) of the act when detention is “unreasonably prolonged,” due-process protections kick in.
The panel found that both detainees should be given bond hearings as they looked to Supreme Court precedents.
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