SHOCKING: Justices Side with Liberals, Illegal Aliens Can IGNORE Weekend & Holiday Deportation Deadlines
The Supreme Court just narrowly overturned a ruling by a lower appeals court on whether deportation deadlines actually mean anything.
Do illegal aliens have to abide by deadlines related to deportation orders? That shouldn’t be a complicated question for any judge — conservative or liberal.
The initial ruling by the 10th Circuit court said those deadlines matter, and basically the Supreme Court ruling answered it with a solid, “meh”.
Here’s what happened.
A man living in Colorado who entered the U.S. illegally decades ago was ordered to be deported, but he argued that he should be allowed to self-deport — and he was given a deadline.
He missed that 60-day deadline. And the court gave him ANOTHER deadline to comply with the deportation order.
He missed that 60-day deadline as well.
But that final deadline fell on a weekend, and the illegal alien argued he should not have had to meet that deadline… since it fell on a weekend.
No joke — I’m not making this up. This is exactly what happened.
And the Supreme Court of the United States OVERRULED the lower court which initially called BS in the matter, and AGREED with the illegal alien!
So court ordered deadlines DON’T MATTER if you’re here illegally! (What kind of crazy world is this!?)
That’s now the stance of the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to two so-called ‘conservative’ Justices who (for the bazillionth time) sided with the liberal SCOTUS Justices.
Not surprisingly, Chief Justice Roberts agreed that the deadline wasn’t really a deadline that should be enforced, and sided with the liberals on the court.
But VERY surprisingly… Justice Gorsuch joined Roberts in voting along with the liberal-leaning Justices!
E tu, Gorsuch?
I’m starting to wonder — besides Alito and Clarence Thomas, God bless them! — are there any true conservatives on the Supreme Court at all!?
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The narrow 5-4 ruling sided against Pam Bondi who represented the United States in the case, and allowed an illegal alien the right to argue in a U.S. court that his SATURDAY DEPORTATION DEADLINE shouldn’t matter.
And he won that argument.
Gorsuch actually wrote the majority opinion, arguing that the ‘long-standing’ precedent should apply to these types of immigration cases involving an illegal alien’s deportation, just as it would any other legal deadline.
And I keep wondering when it will dawn on everyone, Supreme Court Justices included, that we are talking about NON-AMERICANS who BROKE THE LAW to come to this country — and are here now ILLEGALLY…
Which is why they are being THROWN OUT to begin with!
Why do we keep thinking that LEGAL NORMS that apply to AMERICANS should apply to NON-AMERICANS who broke the law to come to this country!
I am constantly dumbfounded on this point.
And so, the Supreme Court overturned the 10th Circuit ruling that deadlines matter — even if you’re an illegal alien — according to a report by Fox News:
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday sided with left-leaning justices in an immigration appeals case, a narrow ruling that could portend the court’s future thinking amid a flurry of legal cases centered on immigration.
The 5-4 ruling in Monsalvo Velazquez v. Bondi centered on the government’s interpretation of a 60-day “voluntary departure” deadline, which authorities can use to allow certain immigrants deemed to be of “good moral character” to depart the U.S. on their own terms within that timeframe.
The Supreme Court ruled, with the backing of Roberts and Gorsuch, that any voluntary departure deadlines for immigrants under the 60-day departure time frame that fall on a weekend or on a legal holiday in the U.S. should be extended to the next business day.
Writing for the majority, Gorsuch noted that this interpretation of the 60-day period aligns with long-standing administrative practices, including in immigration law.
“When Congress adopts a new law against the backdrop of a ‘long-standing administrative construction,’ the Court generally presumes the new provision works in harmony with what came before,” Gorsuch said.
“Since at least the 1950s, immigration regulations have provided that when calculating deadlines, the term ‘day’ carries its specialized meaning by excluding Sundays and legal holidays (and later Saturdays) if a deadline would otherwise fall on one of those days,” Gorsuch added, noting that the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed by Congress uses the same reading.
Gorsuch was joined in the majority decision by Roberts, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The court’s ruling overturns the decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Board of Immigration Appeals, which had voted to reject that interpretation in the case of Monsalvo Velázquez, a 32-year-old Colorado resident targeted for removal in 2019.
President Trump weighed in, pointing out the dangerous precedent being set by the Supreme Court.
Do you have a country if you can’t define its’ borders and differentiate between citizens and non-citizens?
We all know the answer to that.
President Trump shouldn’t have to school the U.S. Supreme Court on this issue!
But thankfully we HAVE a President who understands this issue, and is willing to stand his ground on it!
'DANGEROUS' WARNING: @realDonaldTrump delivers blunt message on the courts standing in his way of deporting "some very bad people" after Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch and Chief Justice Roberts sided with left-leaning colleagues in a new ruling. The president emphasized the… pic.twitter.com/NZl14KG7Va
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2025
Conservative talk show host Jesse Kelly had a few things to say about the Supreme Court’s ridiculous ruling on deportation deadlines as well.
Check out his take here — pure fire, and right on the money!
Here’s the full screen video for easier viewing:
And here’s the full text of that initial post:
SHOCK: Gorsuch and Roberts Join Liberals to Let Illegal Aliens Skirt Deportation Deadlines
In a shocking 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that illegal aliens can dodge deportation deadlines if they fall on weekends or holidays, weakening America’s immigration laws.
Justices Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts sided with the court’s liberal wing, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, in *Monsalvo Velázquez v. Bondi*, prioritizing the convenience of lawbreakers over national sovereignty.
Gorsuch’s majority opinion leaned on decades old administrative rules, claiming “day” excludes non-business days, a flimsy excuse to coddle those who shouldn’t be here.
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Alito, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, slammed the ruling in a fiery dissent, insisting “60 days means 60 days,” not whenever illegals feel like leaving.
Jesse Kelly gives you his take in video.
His rhetoric might sound emotionally charged — but that’s because it is.
And rightfully so!
If the President of the United States can’t DEPORT those people who are here illegally WITHOUT ‘due process’ in court…
- We don’t have a President!
- We don’t have a nation!
- The legal system is PURELY ARBITRARY!
That was the entire Democratic Party’s policy statement summed up in 3 points.
And that is what a majority of American voted AGAINST when the voted FOR President Trump — to GET RID of that arbitrary, subjective, globalist corruption of the American justice system!
In his majority opinion, Gorsuch actually argued that this ‘matters greatly’ to people like the illegal alien in this case!
You can read the entire ruling, HERE.
Thankfully, there is still some conservative common sense on the high court.
Alito argued in the dissenting opinion that a deadline, in fact, is a deadline — and it matters — according to Newsweek:
In a narrow 5-4 decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that immigrants who agree to leave the U.S. voluntarily are entitled to deadline flexibility when the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday.
The ruling came in the case of Hugo Abisai Monsalvo Velázquez, a Mexican national who entered the country illegally as a teenager and lived in Colorado for nearly 20 years before receiving a removal order in 2021. The case was argued in November 2024, shortly after President Donald Trump’s re-election and amid a renewed focus on immigration enforcement.
Gorsuch, in the Supreme Court’s majority opinion: “Who is right on this question
of statutory interpretation matters greatly to people like Mr. Monsalvo. Not only does it affect the time one may have to reopen immigration proceedings. As we have seen, it also affects an individual’s exposure to detention, removal, and
fines, and carries with it serious ramifications for his ability to seek lawful status for years into the future.”Alito, in a dissenting opinion: “The Court is sympathetic to petitioner’s plight, but the relevant statutory provision sets a deadline, and no matter how such a deadline is calculated, there will always be those who happen to miss it by a day or so.”
The most disappointing aspect to these constant conservative defections on the high court is they seem to portend the willingness of these Justices to capitulate to the liberals on immigration issues.
If you’re watching the trend, so-called ‘conservative’ Justices are siding with liberals on immigration issues nearly every day of the week in the Supreme Court.
That doesn’t bode well for the really key issues that are likely to be hashed out by the high court as these arguments get litigated in the courts.
I can only thank God for Alito and Thomas who seem to be the only conservative Justices not willing to compromise.