High Court to Review Removal of Lawful Permanent Residents

The U.S. Supreme Court could make it easier for lawful permanent residents to remain in the country after committing a crime.

The justices agreed today to review an Eleventh Circuit ruling regarding when lawful permanent residents can obtain discretionary “cancellation of removal.”

At issue is the “stop-time rule,” which pauses the accumulation of the seven-year residency requirement necessary to obtain cancellation.

The rule is triggered, among other times, whenever such non-citizens commit an offense that renders them “inadmissible.”

The Second, Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits have all said the rule is kicks in regardless of whether an admitted immigrant is ...