RIGHT SPEAK: SCOTUS To Hear Major Case On Trump’s Deportation Agenda; Supreme Court to Take Up Key Trump Immigration Case That Could Restart ‘catch and release’

SCOTUS To Hear Major Case On Trump’s Deportation Agenda:

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major case involving a core tenet of President Trump’s deportation agenda.

The high court announced on Thursday that it will hear arguments in Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha during its 2026 term. The case deals with whether the federal government can detain certain categories of illegal aliens during their removal proceedings without a bond hearing.

At issue is a revised Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy adopted last year. As described by SCOTUSblog, the guidance relies “on a provision of federal immigration law indicating that noncitizens ‘shall be detained’ for a removal proceeding ‘if the examining immigration officer determines that’ they are ‘not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted’ to the United States.”

“Until last year,” the outlet noted, “the government had not applied that provision to noncitizens who already had entered the U.S. and spent years or even decades here.” By applying this new policy, the administration aimed to detain these individuals without a bond hearing.

According to the government’s brief, the Rhoney case centers around Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a Brazilian national who unlawfully entered America “around 2004 or 2005” and was arrested by immigration officials at a traffic stop last year. The Trump administration subsequently initiated removal proceedings against him “for being present in the United States without being admitted or paroled, and being inadmissible under [federal law], for not possessing valid immigration documents.”

As such, the agency concluded that Barbosa da Cunha would be detained throughout the rest of his removal proceedings. An immigration judge later denied his request for a bond hearing. --->READ MORE HERE

Supreme Court to take up key Trump immigration case that could restart ‘catch and release’:

The Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s practice of indefinitely detaining migrants who allegedly crossed the border illegally.

In the past, accused illegal immigrants were often granted a hearing before a judge about their detention, but President Trump had been keen on ending so-called “catch and release” practices due to concerns that the migrants won’t show up to court.

The lower courts have splintered over whether the Trump administration’s policy on mandatory detentions violates federal law.

Now a key aspect of Trump’s immigration agenda will be in the Supreme Court’s crosshairs.

The decision to grant certiorari comes after the high court agreed this week to take up another case involving deportations.

The Supreme Court allowed the administration to continue deportations to third countries, nations that are not the illegal immigrants’ place of origin.

The indefinite detention case revolves around Brazilian citizen Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, who officials alleged entered the country illegally some two decades ago and has since sought asylum.

His attorneys have noted that he was never charged with a crime.

An immigration judge concluded he needed to be kept in detention, despite his push for a bond hearing.

An estimated 70,000 migrants are currently being holed up in immigration detention facilities, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. --->READ MORE HERE

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