Published July 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM ET · Updated July 14, 2026 at 6:22 PM ET
Mexico sends lawyers to challenge ICE deportations
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Mexico is dispatching lawyers to challenge ICE deportation proceedings. The effort is aimed at contesting the removal of Mexican nationals.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
The Japanese Immigrant Case held that any alien who has entered the United States cannot be removed without due process, meaning at minimum notice and a meaningful chance to be heard. INS v. St. Cyr confirmed that federal courts retain habeas jurisdiction to decide pure legal questions in removal cases, the very vehicle Mexico's lawyers would invoke to contest these ICE deportations.
Kaoru Yamataya v. Thomas M. Fisher, Immigrant and Chinese Inspector (The Japanese Immigrant Case) 189 U.S. 86 (1903)
Vote: Majority for the Court (Harlan); Brewer and Peckham dissenting. Exact 7-2 tally not… · Opinion: Harlan
Although Congress may commit exclusion and deportation to executive officers without judicial trial, an alien who has landed and become part of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr 533 U.S. 289 (2001)
Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Justice John Paul Stevens
Two holdings. (1) Jurisdiction: notwithstanding AEDPA and IIRIRA's review-stripping provisions, federal district courts retain jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to decide pure questions of law in habeas petitions filed by aliens facing removal. Because barring all judicial review of such questions would raise a serious Suspension Clause problem — habeas at its historical core ran to executive detention — the Court required a clear, unambiguous statement from Congress before reading a statute to eliminate habeas, and found none.
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