Biden admin warns 'avalanche' of deportations could be scuttled if SCOTUS rules against them in key case

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The Biden administration warned Supreme Court justices on Monday that hundreds of thousands of deportation cases could be reset and sent back into the immigration system if the justices rules against the administration on a key case regarding the use of immigration notices.

The remarks came during oral arguments in a case related to Notices to Appear (NTA) — orders given to illegal immigrants before they are released into the interior to appear before an immigration court. However, sometimes those documents when issued do not include a court date and only say "TBD." A separate court date is later mailed to the illegal immigrant in those instances.

If the immigrant does not turn up for that hearing, they can be ordered deported "in absentia." The case focused initially on an El Salvadoran illegal immigrant who was given an NTA in 2005, and months later was mailed a court date, but says he didn’t receive it. The case has been joined by two other illegal immigrants with similar situations. 

The lawyers for the illegal immigrants represented argue that the two separate mailings do not count as proper notice as dictated by statute. Government lawyers argued that such practices do count as proper notice, and also warned...Read more and see videos here.