The Supreme Court left in place a deportation order the morning of March 4 against an illegal alien from Mexico who was convicted of fraudulently using a Social Security card to gain employment, because he failed to establish he was entitled to relief from removal. The 5-3 ruling in Pereida v. Wilkinson was a win for the former Trump administration which had argued last year in favor of affirming the removal order. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, upholding a decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The three liberal justices all dissented. The Supreme Court bench had only eight members when oral arguments were heard telephonically Oct. 13, 2020, because Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died the month before. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who did not participate in the decision, had not yet been confirmed. Clemente Avelino Pereida, a married Mexican citizen now with three children, who illegally …
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