The Supreme Court left in place a deportation order 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 ruling in Pereida v. Wilkinson was 5-3. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion., the three liberal justices all dissented. Eight justices, instead of the usual nine, heard oral arguments telephonically on Oct. 13, 2020. The Supreme Court bench had only eight members at the time because Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died Sept. 18, 2020. 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 entered the United States in 1995, was convicted in Nebraska of attempted criminal impersonation, a misdemeanor offense, related to his fraudulent use of …
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