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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

SCOTUSBlog

Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. The case arose from the government’s attempt to deport Leon Santos-Zacaria, a 34-year-old transgender woman and citizen of Guatemala.