SCOTUS Green Card Ruling Makes it Harder to Stay in U.S. (2)

The Supreme Court made it harder for longtime green card holders with a criminal conviction to remain in the United States.

In their 5-4 decision that broke along ideological lines on Thursday, the justices took an expansive view of the “stop-time rule” in the case of a Jamaican national who sought to avoid deportation. That standard determines whether a lawful permanent resident has been in the country long enough to be eligible for that to happen.

The law requires that permanent residents show they’ve lived in the country for at least seven continuous years. The timeline for eligibility is stopped ...