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Supreme Court Hands Trump Administration BIG WIN in 6-3 Decision


The Supreme Court just delivered a massive victory for the Trump administration on immigration!

In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS ruled that the DHS is allowed to strip green card holders and lawful permanent residents of their legal status if they leave the country while facing criminal charges — even if they have not been convicted yet.

This will prevent criminal immigrants from re-entering the United States and putting Americans in danger if they travel abroad.

Take a look at the decision:

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The case centered around a lawful permanent resident from China who was placed on immigration parole after he traveled to his home country while still facing counterfeiting charges in the U.S.

As you might have expected, all three liberal justices dissented.

NBC News reported further on the ruling:

The 6-3 decision centers around an immigration officers’ 2012 decision to put lawful permanent resident Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.

Lau argued that overstepped the officer’s authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly begin deportation proceedings after he pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey.

The high court disagreed. “Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the opinion.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime, she wrote.

“I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in a dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues.

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The decision comes as the high court considers a series of immigration-related issues against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, though this case started before Trump took office.

Fox Live Now provided further coverage in this clip:

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