NEW: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a 5-4 ruling, endorsed the Trump admin's authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime - potentially even years - after they have completed prison terms for criminal conviction
The court ruled 5-4, with its conservative justices in the majority and its liberal justices dissenting, that federal authorities could pick up such immigrants and place them into indefinite detention anytime, not just immediately after they finish their prison sentences.
The law at issue states that the government can detain convicted immigrants"when the alien is released" from criminal detention. Civil rights lawyers for two groups of plaintiffs argued that the language of the law shows that it applies only immediately after immigrants are released. The Trump administration said the government should have the power to detain such immigrants anytime.
Alito said the challengers' assertion that immigrants had to be detained within 24 hours of ending a prison sentence is"especially hard to swallow." The administration had appealed a lower court ruling in the case that favored immigrants, a decision it said would undermine the government's ability to deport immigrants who have committed crimes. Trump has backed limits on legal and illegal immigrants since taking office in January 2017.
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