Overview
- On Tuesday the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision allowing immigration officers to treat some returning green‑card holders as applicants for admission and place them on parole without a clear‑and‑convincing evidentiary standard.
- A D.C. Circuit panel cleared the way for the administration to apply expedited removal nationwide to people who cannot prove two years of continuous U.S. residence, reviving a policy that lets officers deport some migrants without an immigration‑judge hearing.
- A federal judge in the Northern District of California issued a separate nationwide injunction that bars ICE from making arrests inside immigration courts and invalidated related 2025 policies that extended short‑term detention holds.
- The Supreme Court has accepted Genalo v. Black for review, keeping unresolved whether there are constitutional limits on prolonged immigration detention and when bond hearings must be provided.
- Civil‑rights groups and defense lawyers warn the combined rulings raise the risk that long‑term residents will face rapid removal without full hearings, while agencies and courts now face immediate operational changes and more legal appeals.