The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a deportation order against an illegal alien from Mexico who was convicted of fraudulently using a Social Security card to gain employment, an argument that was met with skepticism by some justices.
The case is an appeal from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with the federal government. If the high court rules in favor of the would-be deportee in the highly technical case, it could invite more legal challenges to the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens convicted of offenses.
