Immigrants who have re-entered the U.S. after a prior deportation can secure asylum with proof of persecution, but federal law has conflicting rules on detaining these individuals. Immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas, in 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — Immigration attorneys voiced cautious optimism Monday after the Trump administration’s deportation procedures drew sharp questioning at Supreme Court oral arguments. “A number of the justices seemed concerned with adopting an interpretation of the statutes that would predictably leave thousands of people per year in detention for lengthy periods of time without any possibility of review, where such an interpretation is not necessary,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, director of the Immigrant Advocacy Program, said in an email.