The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Monsalvo Valquez v. Bondi that illegal aliens granted voluntary departure may remain in the U.S. past their court-ordered deadlines if those dates fall on a weekend or legal holiday. This decision, authored by Justice Gorsuch, effectively extends departure windows, a move strongly criticized by dissenting justices as a deviation from the rule of law.
James Kaufman, World News Report today, April 22nd, 2025.
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Liberal judges gone mad. Several setbacks today.
Number three.
Gorsuch and Roberts side with liberal justices.
Illegal alien can ignore deportation deadline
if it falls on a weekend or holiday.
And yet another blow to immigration law enforcement.
The Supreme Court today ruled five to four.
In Monsalvo, Valquez v. Bondi, that illegal aliens granted
voluntary departure under federal immigration law can remain
in the United States past their court-ordered departure deadlines
if the deadline happens to fall on a weekend or a legal holiday.
To understand this better,
they were all issued 60-day departure or court notices.
Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion joined
by Justices Roberts, Sotomayor,
Kagan, and Jackson, effectively rewriting
the meaning of a 60-day voluntary departure period
to accommodate the convenience
of deportable individuals, not the rule of law.
At the center of the case was Hugo Monsalvo Valquez, a Mexican national
who entered the U.S. illegally nearly two decades ago
and was ordered to leave within 60 days.
His departure deadline fell on a Saturday,
but instead of leaving, he filed a motion to reopen his case.
On the following Monday, both the Board of Immigration Appeals and the
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that he had missed his deadline.
But the Supreme Court has now overruled them, injecting ambiguity
into what was once a firm immigration order deadline.
In a strong dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Alito,
Kavanaugh, and Barrett, blasted the majority for stretching
the law beyond its clear term, arguing that 60 days means 60 days,
not whenever the alien gets around to it.
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