pa href="https://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-declines-hear-141016424.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7mpahkjtI0pTFmPQIAsOCw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/c5c9c8ae86c72a5709d3e9dd39d11fb1" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear bid by Iraqis to avoid deportation" align="left" title="U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear bid by Iraqis to avoid deportation" border="0" /aThe U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a bid by a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country where they say they could face persecution and torture. The justices let stand a lower court's 2018 ruling that the federal judiciary lacked the authority to stop the planned deportations. The case involves approximately 1,400 Iraqis in the United States who were ordered deported years or even decades ago because of criminal convictions.pbr clear="all"