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Supreme Court Rules Against Migrants’ Rights To Bond Hearings In Detention

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The U.S.  Supreme Court on Monday delivered an important ruling regarding migrants who illegally cross into the United States.

A supermajority of justices ruled that illegal immigrants who are detained for six months don’t have a legal right to a bond hearing in order to be released.

“The decision addressed two separate cases involving three illegal aliens, two of which were Mexican nationals that entered the U.S. illegally after being previously deported. After they were detained, they filed a putative class action for a bond hearing after six months of detention,” the Daily Caller reported.

“The third illegal alien was from El Salvador and also reentered the country illegally after being previously deported. He also sued in Washington federal court for a bond hearing. The case was brought to the high court under the Trump administration and was inherited by the Biden administration, which continued to pursue the previous administration’s fight,” the outlet noted further.

In an 8-1 ruling that brought together the conservative and liberal wings of the court, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the law is silent on that point.

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“Respondents sought withholding of removal under the INA based on their fear that, if returned to their countries of origin, they would face persecution or torture,” she wrote.

The high court accepted the case during the Trump administration and it was inherited by the Biden administration, which continued to pursue the previous administration’s arguments, according to the Associated Press.

Biden was criticized for the move, with the American Civil Liberties Union claiming the administration was “decidedly on the wrong side of this fight.”

Justice Samuel Alito, in his own opinion, wrote: “It generally prohibits lower courts from entering injunctions that order federal officials to take or to refrain from taking actions to enforce, implement, or otherwise carry out the specified statutory provisions.”

The high court did not issue its ruling on one of this term’s most anticipated cases, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which features a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.

A draft opinion of the case, written by Alito, was leaked in an unprecedented manner to POLITICO in early May. That decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 SCOTUS ruling that made the procedure legal in all 50 states.

As for illegal immigration in general, U.S. Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection agents have encountered a record number of migrants crossing illegally since President Joe Biden took office. On his first day, he reversed most of former President Donald Trump’s border security policies, which critics say led to the record numbers.

Last week, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is predicting that President Joe Biden will be impeached in November over his administration’s handling of the immigration crisis.

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“You have stood down ICE and you’ve stood down Border Patrol, and guess what? That’s the impeachment hearing I want to hear,” Bannon said during an episode on his War Room podcast.

“You’re going to sit there day after day and week after week and we’re going to bring the witnesses,” Bannon continued, in an attack that appeared to be aimed at Biden. “We’re going to bring the witnesses of what you did to this country and what you did on the southern border.”

“Preserve your documents because after impeachment, they’re going to put you up on criminal charges. Criminal charges for allowing this country to be invaded by your actions,” Bannon said.

“Acts of commission not acts of omission,” said Bannon. “We’re not going to back down, so write it down. This November is about one thing: it’s impeaching Joe Biden to stop this madness and to stop this illegitimate regime from destroying our nation.”

On impeachment, a new shock poll from UMass Amherst Poll conducted by YouGov found that 68 percent of GOP voters want Biden removed from office if the party wins control of Congress.

“The pollster predicts pressure to impeach will only increase among Republicans,” Mediate reported, citing the survey.

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