Supreme Court Weighs Due Process Concerns for Noncitizens, No-Fly List

Supreme Court justices pressed government attorneys about the implications of their positions for individuals who were subject to immigration proceedings and placed on the no-fly list. Two sets of oral arguments took place on Jan. 8. The first was for a consolidated group of cases—Campos-Chaves v. Garland and Garland v. Singh and Mendez-Colin—that questioned how much initial notice—specifically, time and date—the federal government must provide non-citizens of their court hearing before ordering that they be removed via deportation. Those cases centered around provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which laid out the process for notifying immigrants of their hearings. Some debate has occurred, however, over what the law requires in terms of a notice to appear in court....