Supreme Court upholds government's authority to detain and deport immigrants for past crimes
by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Mar 19, 2019
2 minutes
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Trump administration's power to arrest and hold immigrants indefinitely if they have past crimes on their records that could trigger deportation, even if they had served time years ago for minor drug offenses.
The justices, by a 5-4 vote, agreed that Congress authorized mandatory detention of noncitizens who were subject to deportation because they had committed crimes ranging
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