Supreme Court to hear challenge to indefinite detention of criminal immigrants

The Supreme Court announced it would take up a case deciding whether the federal government can hold criminal immigrants in detention indefinitely pending removal, adding to the immigration cases the high court has heard in recent years. The high court said Monday that it would hear the case Genalo v. Black, part of an orders list that included three cases accepted for arguments in the upcoming term and dozens of cases that the Supreme Court declined to take up. The Justice Department urged the high court to hear the case by looking at whether federal immigration officials may detain a criminal immigrant who is awaiting the conclusion of removal proceedings, indefinitely or if he or she should be given a bond hearing if the detention becomes “unreasonably prolonged.” The DOJ also asked…

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