The Supreme Court will review on Wednesday the Trump administration’s bid to remove a criminal noncitizen who was paroled into the country, one of two immigration cases the justices will hear over the next week.
The case, Blanche v. Lau, centers on a Chinese national, Muk Choi Lau, who became a legal permanent resident in 2005 but was eventually charged with trademark counterfeiting in 2012 and left the country. When Lau returned later in 2012, he was paroled into the country by immigration officers to face trial, then convicted in 2013. Immigration officials began removal proceedings in 2014 for him, citing the conviction, but years later, a federal appeals court tossed out an immigration court’s removal order, finding he could not be removed due to the criminal conviction because he was legally admitted into the country when he was paroled.
The high court will look at whether the federal government must prove
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