Breitbart: SCOTUS Unanimously Rules Against Criminal Illegal Alien Seeking to Avoid Deportation

IRLI In The News

May 25, 2021

By John Binder

The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday ruled against a criminal illegal alien, previously convicted of felony DUI and deported, seeking to avoid deportation after illegally re-entering the U.S.

Refugio Palomar-Santiago, an illegal alien from Mexico, obtained a green card in 1990, a year before the state of California convicted him of felony DUI. In 1998, Palomar-Santiago waived his right to appeal after being ordered deported by a federal immigration judge. Subsequently, he was deported to Mexico the next day.

Read the full story at Breitbart

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