The United States Supreme Court on Monday brought a setback to foreigners held in detention centers after they irregularly crossed the border in cases that have plagued the Democrat Joe Biden government’s government with immigration rights advocates.
The country’s highest court of justice has ruled that these immigrants do not have the right to seek release even after six months in detention.
The cases concerned Mexicans detained after illegally crossing the southern US border. These immigrants demanded that they not be extradited to Mexico, citing threats of torture in their country.
After several months of unresponsiveness, they requested the right to appear before a judge to be released on bail pending the outcome of the procedure. In 2019, Justice gave them reasons and ruled that they were entitled to a hearing after six months of detention.
The administration of his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, who made the fight against illegal immigration a cornerstone of Biden’s presidency, later asked the Supreme Court to review the ruling, which applies to thousands of immigrants.
Biden’s government, which took office in January of the same year with the promise of humanizing the immigration system, continued this approach in 2021, upsetting the associations that defended immigrants.
Biden’s government was “on the wrong side of the war”, criticizing the powerful civil rights organization ACLU during the trial.
Without commenting on the length of detention, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that nothing in the law gave them that right.
The Conservative majority added in a second opinion that federal judges cannot make national decisions in such cases, only on a case-by-case basis.
In the United States, law normally sets the deadline for the execution of a deportation order at 90 days, but in some cases authorizes it to go further. According to official statistics, in fiscal year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021), the average detention period of immigrants was 45.7 days.
source: Noticias
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