Haitian Centers Council v. McNary, 975 F.2d 19 (2d Cir. 1992), often comes up in this context. It is a Court of Appeals decision, not a Supreme Court ruling. The actual Supreme Court case is Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993).
In Sale, the Court ruled that the President’s power under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) allows for the suspension of entry for noncitizens seen as detrimental to U.S. interests. This authority extends to intercepting Haitian nationals on the high seas and sending them back to Haiti without screening them for asylum eligibility.
The Court dismissed arguments that the Immigration and Nationality Act or the international principle of non-refoulement blocked these actions. The ruling established that U.S. immigration laws do not apply extraterritorially to people intercepted outside U.S. territorial waters. The decision affirmed executive power to run interdiction operations while denying access to U.S. asylum procedures.
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