Supreme Court rejects bond hearings for immigrants facing deportation
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that immigrants being held for deportation have no right to seek their release on bond, regardless of how long they may be held.
The justices ruled unanimously that federal immigration law calls for holding noncitizens who returned illegally to the United States and generally “removing” them within 90 days. They may be detained longer if they have pending claims, the court said,but they do not have a right under the law to go free on bond.
“There is no plausible construction of the text of (immigration law) that requires the government to provide bond hearings before immigration judges after six months of detention,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking for the court in Johnson vs. Arteaga-Martinez.
She said Antonio Arteaga-Martinez, a citizen of Mexico, had entered this country illegally four times and been sent back across the border.
He said he was beaten violently by a street gang in Mexico and fled north for safety. He was held in Pennsylvania for deportation but filed a claim for asylum.
After six months of detention, a federal judge and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled he could be released on bond.
In a second, related 6-3 decision, the high court Monday also overturned the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, which upheld broad, “class-wide injunctive relief” that required bond hearings for those who had been held for deportation for more than six months in Seattle and San Francisco.
The Biden administration appealed that ruling.
In overturning it, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said a 1996 immigration law “bars class-wide relief” for noncitizens who are held by the government. He said federal judges are limited to deciding individual claims.
—Los Angeles Times
Gunman attempting to attack Texas summer camp is killed, police say
DALLAS — An armed man who attacked a summer camp in Duncanville on Monday is dead after being shot by police.
Around 250 children were at the camp at the Duncanville Fieldhouse, which went on lockdown after the gunman fired shots. Police said the gunman attempted to enter a classroom, but the door was locked. No children, staff or police were harmed, said Duncanville Assistant Chief of Police Matthew Stogner during a news conference.
Stogner said police responded to the field house at 8:45 a.m., two minutes after receiving calls about shots being fired. The field house was the site of a summer camp for children between the ages of 4 and 14, he said.
During a search, officers confronted the man and shot him. Police provided medical aid, and the suspect was taken to a hospital,where he later died. The suspect’s identity was not released, and a motive has not been determined.
Stogner said because the shooting involved a police officer, the investigation will be led by the Texas Rangers.
—The Dallas Morning News
Tampon manufacturers say they’re working to address reported shortages
Tampon manufacturers say they’re working to replenish the supply of their products after shortages were reported on shelves across the country.
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan sent a letter to Procter & Gamble Co., Edgewell Personal Care Co., Johnson & Johnson and Kimberly-Clark Corp. asking what they plan to do to address reports of diminished supply and price gouging by third-party sellers. The Democrat from New Hampshire cited several news reports chronicling a shortage. It comes on the heels of a baby formula shortage and rising prices on everything from food to clothes to gas — to menstrual products.
The companies should “take immediate action to increase the tampon supply and end unnecessary price increases,” Hassan saidin the letter. “Access to menstrual products should be treated like every other essential good.”
—Bloomberg News
UK sparks EU ire with bill to override parts of Brexit deal
The United Kingdom unveiled legislation to override parts of the Brexit deal it signed with the European Union, risking a trade war with the bloc, which threatened to take legal action.
The bill seeks to hand the U.K. powers to unilaterally rewrite the bulk of the Northern Ireland protocol, which kept the region in the EU single market after Brexit, creating a customs border with mainland Great Britain. If passed, the new law would allow ministers to rip up the regulatory framework both sides agreed to in 2019 and replace it with new rules on customs checks, tax and arbitration.
“This is a reasonable, practical solution to the problems facing Northern Ireland,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement. “It will safeguard the EU Single Market and ensure there is no hard border on the island of Ireland.”
But the move risks reopening divisions between Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration and the EU 2 1/2 years after the U.K. left the bloc, just as a unified approach to Russia following its invasion of Ukraine had binded them together again.The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Maros Sefcovic said the bloc will now consider legal proceedings against the U.K.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin told reporters in Cork, Ireland, that the move is “a new low point” and called for “substantive negotiations” to resolve the differences between the U.K. and EU.
—Bloomberg News
