Trump immigration win could strengthen admin's hand in looming Supreme Court fight

Three immigrants held under federal mandatory detention have no constitutional right to a bond hearing, the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Friday, handing the Trump administration a notable legal victory. The ruling may carry wider weight because the Supreme Court will soon hear a related dispute that could either weaken or bolster the government's position, according to Fox News.

In Ignacio Sosnava Rodriguez v. Sylvester M. Ortega, the judges considered men who entered the country illegally and were never formally admitted. They had lived in the United States for years, some for decades, and had community ties. The court concluded that such roots do not generate a Fifth Amendment due process claim to a hearing on release while deportation is pending. In the court's words, "The Constitution does not entitle them to a bond hearing."

The justices will hear Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha, an appeal from the Second Circuit, this term. It poses an earlier question: whether that statute reaches long-settled immigrants arrested within U.S. borders. Circuits are split 9-2 over which detention law governs people who crossed illegally and were arrested years later.

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