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On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case that weakens protections for permanent residents, in the latest attack on legal immigration to the United States.<\/p>\n

In a 6-3 decision, the Court gave the government more flexibility to make permanent residents who have been accused of a crime vulnerable for detention and removal when reentering the U.S. The decision that border officers can treat permanent residents as \u201capplicants for admission\u201d rather than already admitted to the country, even without \u201cclear and convincing evidence\u201d that they have committed a crime. This means that they could be refused entry or detained without first being proved guilty. <\/p>\n

The case centered on a lawful permanent resident, Muk Choi Lau, who was placed on immigration parole after returning from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that border officials did not have to establish evidence that Lau had committed a crime to place him on immigration parole. <\/p>\n

The decision was approved by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito \u2013 the conservative majority of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissenting opinion, signed on by Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. In it, she wrote that lawful permanent residents \u201care as close to citizenship as one can get absent naturalization,\u201d which means that they are allowed to \u201ctravel in and out of the United States\u201d with more ease than other non-citizens. <\/p>\n

This decision, she says, undermines \u201cthe benefits and security that come with having a green card,\u201d allowing the government to first consider permanent residents as \u201cseeking admission\u201d \u201cand justify the applicability of the exception later.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cCongress could not have meant for the guarantees it was affording to be so cavalierly swept aside,\u201d Jackson wrote. <\/p>\n

The Court\u2019s \u201cmassive blank check\u201d to the White House may cause permanent residents to spend \u201cyears in legal limbo\u2026 or worse, in detention\u201d as they work to prove their innocence. <\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, the Supreme Court narrowed the ability of non-U.S. citizens to bring forward lawsuits over human rights violations committed abroad. The Court stated that members of the Falun Gong religious movement cannot sue a U.S. company that they say helped facilitate the Chinese state\u2019s detention and torture of their members. While the ruling focused on Cisco Systems, a U.S. technology company, the ruling could prevent other U.S. companies from facing cases relating to human rights abuses abroad. <\/p>\n

Sotomayor said that the decision throws out \u201ctwo decades of settled precedent,\u201d closing the Court\u2019s doors \u201cto virtually every future litigant seeking redress for a violation of international law\u201d under the Alien Tort Statute, which was passed in 1789 to allow non-U.S. citizens to file lawsuits in U.S. courts for international law violations. <\/p>\n

The court is also considering Trump\u2019s push to end birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara<\/em>, as well as cases determining whether state bans on transgender athletes will continue, both of which it is set to decide on by the end of June. <\/p>\n

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