Federal Appeals Court: Detained Immigrants Have No Right to 'Family Unity'

Illegal immigrants detained at the border don’t have a “due process right to family unity,” a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled Tuesday.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling that apprehended illegals don’t have the right to be held in the same state as their children, The Hill reported.

“On the merits, we, like the district court, have been unable to find a substantive due process right to family unity in the context of immigration detention pending removal,” the appeals court wrote in its ruling.

“To be sure, there are decisions that recognize the ‘power of parents to control the education of their own’ children… and the ‘fundamental right to make decisions concerning the rearing’ of one’s children… but those decisions hardly support the asserted right to be detained in the same state as one’s children, the right to be visited by children while in detention, or a general right to ‘family unity’ in the context of detention.”

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