The U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency appeal from four Mexican nationals who entered the United States illegally and who are facing deportation, after they requested that the high court temporarily bar their removal proceedings.
On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied an appeal from Fabian Lagunas Espinoza, Maria Angelica Flores Ulloa, and their two sons, who had argued in previous court filings that their family faces cartel violence if they are returned to Mexico. Kagan did not provide a comment for the denial.
The family entered the United States illegally before an immigration judge denied their claim, which was upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals on Nov. 3, according to court filings. Earlier this year, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the order before a temporary stay of their deportation was lifted on April 7, prompting the emergency appeal to Kagan….