U.S. appeals court backs Trump administration bid to deport some Iraqis
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday backed the Trump administration in its attempt to deport from the United States about 100 Iraqi immigrants who had been convicted of crimes years ago.
A divided 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling that had blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to send the immigrants back to Iraq. The appeals court also disagreed with the Michigan federal judge’s order that the immigrants receive bail hearings.
In 2017, the Trump administration detained the Iraqis as part of a broad effort to ramp up immigration enforcement across the country. Many of the Iraqis had been ordered deported years or decades ago because of criminal offenses but had not been deported because their home country would not take them back.
“Though many of these Iraqi nationals had come to expect that the execution of their removals would never materialize, they had been living in the United States on borrowed time,” the appeals court ruling said.
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U.S. DECEMBER 20, 2018 / 12:22 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
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