The Supreme Court handed a green light Thursday to the Trump administration in its effort to speed up the removal of those seeking asylum.
on immigration, concerned Sri Lanka native Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. He was arrested 25 yards north of the Mexican border and immediately placed in expedited removal proceedings.Immigration officials determined that Thuraissigiam did not have a credible fear of persecution, even though he is a member of Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic minority that faces beatings and torture at the hands of the government.
In her dissent, Sotomayor said the system Congress established short-circuits an inquiry designed to determine whether asylum-seekers"may seek shelter in this country or whether they may be cast to an unknown fate." Only 30 petitions for federal court hearings have been filed so far, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt said then. But Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler said the figure was closer to 100 and warned of"the potential for a flood" of cases if the Supreme Court ruled for Thuraissigiam.
The California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which has drawn Trump's ire for its decisions on immigration, ruled last year that efforts to remove asylum-seekers under such "expedited removal" procedures violated their constitutional rights.
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