In a surprising turn of events from the often-wishy-washy U.S. Supreme Court, all nine justices unanimously ruled against a criminal illegal alien's bid to block his second deportation.
On Monday, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor - a liberal appointed by former President Barack Obama - wrote in a 9-0 opinion that Refugio Palomar-Santiago, an illegal alien from Mexico, had no right to challenge his deportation following a DUI conviction.
At the time, a conviction for a DUI allowed for the deportation of an illegal alien.
At the time, the Mexican national challenged the indictment, citing the 2004 case Leocal v. Ashcroft, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a DUI was not sufficient grounds to deport an illegal alien.
Are you surprised that the Supreme Court ruled against an illegal alien?
The federal statute states that: "In a criminal proceeding under this section, an alien may not challenge the validity of the deportation order unless the alien demonstrates that - the alien exhausted any administrative remedies that may have been available to seek relief against the order; the deportation proceedings at which the order was issued improperly deprived the alien of the opportunity for judicial review; and the entry of the order was fundamentally unfair."
It took years for a convicted criminal illegal alien to be deported from the country after breaking immigration laws at least twice.
https://www.westernjournal.com/scotus-unanimously-rules-criminal-illegal-alien/
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