Two Supreme Court justices have said that the prosecution of an illegal immigrant represents serious constitutional issues.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a statement joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said the case of an illegal immigrant from Mexico named Jesus Herrera-Salazar revealed a “constitutional absurdity.”
Herrera-Salazar was deported from the United States on multiple occasions, including in 2015. He was found in Texas in 2020 and charged with being in the United States after deportation, in violation of federal law. He pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Another deportation was not ordered.
Herrera-Salazar was released from prison in 2021 and went to Oklahoma, where his wife and children lived. A probation officer told him not to leave eastern Oklahoma until his period of supervised release was over….