Deportation Hardship Waiver Case Gets Supreme Court Review

A challenge to whether federal courts can review an immigration judge’s denial of a deportation hardship waiver will get US Supreme Court review.

The justices on Friday granted the appeal of Situ Kamu Wilkinson in a case they’ll hear next term.

An immigration judge rejected his bid to avoid deportation, pushing aside both his effort to show his removal would cause hardship for his son and his assertion that he would be under threat of persecution if returned to Trinidad and Tobago.

The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed the decision and he appealed to the US Court of Appeals for ...