Supreme Court Backs Trump Administration in Deportation Case
- Court bolsters power to hold legal residents facing deporation
- Kavanaugh, Gorsuch join court’s conservatives in 5-4 majority
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court bolstered the government’s power to detain people who are facing deportation because of crimes they committed, siding with the Trump administration in a clash with implications for so-called sanctuary cities.
The case focused on non-citizen legal residents who serve a criminal sentence, get released and later are arrested by federal immigration agents.