This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 Detained immigrants can be held in jail indefinitely while awaiting deportation proceedings or hearings on whether they can legally enter the United States, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision, by the court's conservative majority, could affect thousands of immigrants now in detention. It reverses a ruling by an appeals court in San Francisco to require bail hearings every six months. It came a day after the justices, in another immigration case, rejected President Trump's request to bypass a federal appeals court and consider his attempt to abolish a program protecting nearly 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. The justices also will review the president's immigration authority in an April hearing on Trump's ban on U.S. entry by residents of a group of mostly Muslim-majority nations. Tuesday's case involved immigrants, including legal residents, who are held for possible deportation after criminal convictions, and others who seek the right to enter the U.S. or remain in the country after being stopped at the border or arrested by immigration agents. About 40,000 immigrants were held in detention on a typical day, at least 10 percent of them for more than… Read full this story
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