Ruling Is In: Supreme Court Delivers Trump Huge Victory in Immigration Battle

Sweet news for the Trump administration and America as a whole.

The Supreme Court issued a new ruling, essentially making it easier to detain illegal immigrants who have criminal records.

Via USA Today:

The justices reversed a lower court decision that required immigration officials to detain noncitizens subject to deportation almost immediately after their release from jail or prison, rather than months or even years later. Advocates for immigrants had argued that such detentions must occur within 24 hours or not at all.

The 5-4 ruling was a victory for the court’s conservative justices, who complained during oral argument in October that the government cannot detain every immigrant immediately – particularly when money and manpower are limited, and state and local “sanctuary city” governments may be opposed.

In other words, “now or never” simply isn’t realistic.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, while Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent.

“It runs the gravest risk of depriving those whom the government has detained of one of the oldest and most important of our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms,” Breyer wrote.

As you can see, he’s very concerned about due process.

But Alito wrote that it is not the court’s job to impose a time limit for when immigrants can be detained after serving a prison sentence. Alito noted that the court has previously said that “an official’s crucial duties are better carried out late than never.” Alito said the challengers’ assertion that immigrants had to be detained within 24 hours of ending a prison sentence is “especially hard to swallow.”

You can read the full opinion here.

Darn straight.

h/t Reuters