The four Mexican families claimed they would face cartel violence if they returned.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected emergency appeals from four Mexican nationals who have illegally entered the United States and faced deportation after the High Court demanded that the removal proceedings be temporarily banned.
The Supreme Court process provides that each justice handles emergency appeals from certain circuits, and Kagan oversees emergency matters regarding the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit.
“The petitioner is in the face of an imminent removal and has been instructed to report it to the Immigration Bureau,” their lawyers wrote in the petition, adding that there is “reliable detailed testimony.”
It is not clear after they report to the office or if the family is still in the country.
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Their lawyers said Espinoza was threatened at muzzle in August 2021 by armed cartel members who demanded they leave the house within 24 hours. The family then fled the town before illegally entering the United States.
“Previously, the petitioner’s brother was beaten after refusing the cartel’s request, so after witnessing criminal conduct and receiving death threats, another brother was targeted and forced to flee,” the petition said, adding that the immigration judge “denies relief while the family’s testimony is reliable.”
If they were deported, their lawyers wrote, that would result in them being exposed to cartel violence, “family separation” and “persecution.” The lawyers argued that allowing their requests would not harm the government, and that the four “substantially pose no danger or flight risk.”
Since taking office, the Trump administration has made criminal foreigners a priority and moved to implement more control around the US-Mexico border.
President Donald Trump was signed by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office in January in relation to suppressing illegal immigration, including declaring a national emergency at the border, restricting birthright citizenship and ending one CPB app that allows illegal immigrants to schedule hearings.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship. Also on Thursday, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Trump administration bid and blocked an order that forced Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return.
The Epoch Times contacted Leroy George Sidell, a lawyer for Espinoza and Uroa, for comments, but did not receive a reply by Friday afternoon.
