Supreme Court rules immigrants can be detained indefinitely

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Supreme Court rules immigrants can be detained indefinitely
By John Bowden - 02/27/18 11:20 AM EST

Immigrants can be held by U.S. immigration officials indefinitely without receiving bond hearings, even if they have permanent legal status or are seeking asylum, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

NPR reports that the Court ruled 5-3, with Justice Elena Kagan recusing, that immigrants do not have the right to periodic bond hearings. The ruling is a defeat for immigration advocates, who argued that immigrants should not be held for more than six months at a time without such a hearing.

The Supreme Court ruling follows a Trump administration appeal of a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last year that imposed a rule requiring immigrants held in custody be given a bond hearing every six months, as long as they aren't considered a flight risk or a danger to national security.

“To impose a rigid six-month rule like the Court of Appeals did is really a mistake,” Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn said in November.

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http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/375791-supreme-court-rules-immigrants-can-be-detained-indefinitely

[skeeter]

Yeah, not considering someone suspected of being in the country illegally a 'flight risk' was a real winner.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Why is this even a subject of discusiion?

They do not get our rights as they are not citizens.

[LauraTXNM]

What is stupid is having too few courts to process these cases quickly.  Why are we paying to hold these people an average of 18 months?  Hold the hearings expeditiously and deport them or (if legal residents who are found innocent of a crime) let them go.  Apparently the guy on whom this case was based has already been freed.