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SCOTUS Weighs Whether US Has To Readmit Green Card Holders Who ‘Committed’ Crimes

Justice Alito posed a hypothetical scenario in which an lawful permanent resident leaves America for France, ‘shot somebody’ while in France, and then returned to the U.S., questioning whether he must be readmitted.

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The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments on Wednesday in a high-profile case involving the removal of green card holders who commit crimes specified in U.S. immigration law.

In Blanche v. Lau, the justices considered the case of Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese national who was a lawful permanent resident (LPR) in the United States. Lau was charged with trademark counterfeiting in 2012 and left America while awaiting trial. Upon his return to the United States, immigration officials “declined to admit him outright and instead paroled him into the country pursuant” to a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to Oyez.

Lau ultimately pled guilty to the counterfeiting charge in 2013 and went on to challenge the U.S. government’s decision to parole him. The justices will decide the question of whether the government “must prove that it possessed clear and convincing evidence of the offense at the time of the LPR’s last reentry into the United States” to “remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in........

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