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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Supreme Court Halts Biden Administration's Attempt to Soften Illegal Immigration Enforcement Supreme Court Halts Biden Administration's Attempt to Soften Illegal Immigration Enforcement By Andrew Jose July 22, 2022 at 12:39pm The Supreme Court refused to reinstate a Biden administration immigration policy that restricted the detention of some illegal immigrants. The court on Thursday decided 5-4 to leave in place a Texas district judges order halting the restrictions until the Supreme Court weighs the case in December. All the male justices Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh refused the Biden administrations request to stay the lower courts order. The courts female justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to grant the Biden administration its request. At the center of the dispute is a September memo from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In the memo, Mayorkas instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement that a person being an illegal immigrant should not alone be the basis on which he or she is detained. Citing the fact that the U.S. lacks the resources to arrest and remove the over 11 million illegal aliens in the country, Mayorkas wrote that Homeland Security must use our discretion and focus our enforcement resources in a more targeted way. Enforcement action must be taken primarily against those posing a threat to national security, public safety and border security, the memorandum stated. Mayorkas also instructed immigration agencies to consider other mitigating factors such as age, mental condition and the impact of removal on family members when deciding on enforcement action. Republican attorneys general in different parts of the country sued the Biden administration over the memo, with the successful lawsuits being from Texas and Louisiana, according to The Washington Post. The lawsuits alleged that the Biden administrations policies would impose the burden of taking care of illegal immigrants education, health care and other social services on the states they reside in, the Post reported. They also said the Biden administrations policies were a violation of federal laws mandating that ICE detain and deport immigrants for carrying out serious crimes. Judge Drew Tipton in Texas vacated the Biden administrations policy. The administrations subsequent appeals to stay the order were denied. When dealing with similar cases in Arizona, Montana and Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled in favor of the Biden administration, according to the Post. In his ruling, Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote that Mayorkas memorandum does not tie the hands of immigration officers. The Texas courts opinion is thwarting the Secretarys direction of the Department he leads and disrupting DHSs efforts to focus its limited resources on the noncitizens who pose the gravest threat to national security, public safety, and the integrity of our Nations borders, solicitor general Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in court papers, according to CNN. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry had asked the Supreme Court not to involve itself in the legal dispute, saying it was within the states rights to bring the case against the Biden administration because the DHS memorandum would raise costs for the states and increase the amount of criminal illegal aliens within their borders. Through the Immigration and Nationality Act, Congress has directed the Executive in mandatory language to detain specific criminal aliens, Paxton said. Poster Comment: Gov. Greg Abbot restarted the border wall after Biden had stopped it by Executive Order. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Stop there. There's prolly 35-55M illegal aliens in this country as I peck. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ H. L. Mencken
Back in the late 70s I was in a local restaurant in Chicago near where I lived. The bus boys were Mexicans. One pointed at the other and said, "Hey man, he's a wetback." LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
The US government happily and proudly admitted recently that there are 50 million "foreign born" people in the US now; the real number is undoubtedly much higher. Their progeny -- first generation US citizens! -- probably add another 100 million or more. In 2004 for several months I seriously studied the issue of illegal immigration into the USA. At that time there were in the US an estimated 32 million illegal immigrants (that year an estimated 3.2 million entered across the US Border Patrol's Tucson sector alone), and the average number of children per Hispanic mother was 5.2 -- much higher than that of Whites. Those children are 18 years old now, and will vote in November.
Thanks for the more accurate numbers.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ H. L. Mencken
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