Johnsonv.Arteaga-Martinez
Antonio Arteaga-Martinez, a Mexican citizen who had been removed and later reentered the United States, was detained while the Government pursued reinstatement of his removal order. He sought a bond hearing after prolonged detention, and the Third Circuit held that the immigration statute required the Government to provide one. The Supreme Court reversed. It held that the statute’s detention provisions do not require the Government to provide a bond hearing after a specified period of post-removal-order detention. The Court emphasized that the question was statutory rather than constitutional and therefore did not decide whether the Constitution independently requires a hearing in a particular case. The judgment was reversed, and the case was remanded for further proceedings consistent with that interpretation.
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