(EFE).- The United States Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request from the government of President Joe Biden to suspend a lower court order requiring the reinstation of the Remain in Mexico program, which forces migrants to stay in Mexico to await their US immigration court dates.
The Supreme Court said in an unsigned order that the administration failed to show a likelihood of success on the claim that the memorandum that terminated the program launched by the administration of now-former president Donald Trump was not “arbitrary and capricious.”
The three liberal magistrates, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said that they would have granted the request of the Biden government.
The administration must now comply with the ruling of the federal judge in Texas. However, the case will go to an appeals court and can return to the Supreme Court, where six of its nine members are conservative.
On his first day in the White House, Biden suspended the program, promoted in January 2019 by Trump and through which it sent more than 60,000 undocumented immigrants to Mexico to wait for their appointments before US immigration judges.
In February, the Biden administration began allowing migrants with active cases under the program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols, to enter the US, and in June the Department of Homeland Security formally terminated the program, which is highly criticized by human rights organizations.
On Aug. 13, federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, nominated to his Texas court position by Trump, agreed with the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri, who sued the current administration in April for their decision to terminate the program.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision on Twitter on Tuesday and said that the program must be “implemented now!”
Lawyer Omar Jadwat of the American Civil Liberties Union said the Biden administration was right to rescind the program, but that it must now “take all steps available to fully end this illegal program, including by re-terminating it with a fuller explanation.” EFE
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The Supreme Court of No Justice actually did something right for a change? I don’t know whether I can take the shock of it all.
Well, we already SAW how feckless they are, when it came to the ‘eviction moratorium’, that they ruled BIDEN CAN’T do, YET HE WENT AHEAD AND DID IT ANYWAY, regardless of what the scotus ruled.
So, i can certainly SEE THIS RULING< also being ignored by biden and co, AND THE SCOTUS NOT DOING A DAMN thing about it.
Man, its gonna snow in August. Kudos to the Supreme Court for getting one right—a really big one. This was so badly needed.
“The Supreme Court said in an unsigned order that the administration failed to show a likelihood of success on the claim that the memorandum that terminated the program launched by the administration of now-former president Donald Trump was not “arbitrary and capricious.”
Great!
Don’t Celebrate quite yet. You can be sure the Marxist Democrats will lie, cheat, steal, bribe, sabotage, intimidate, black mail and maybe even eliminate (think Clinton) to get the SCOTUS decision reversed on appeal. That’s what they do and the Democrats have lots of experience in that area.
Exactly. As the old saying goes
“They made their ruling, NOW LETS SEE them enforce it!”
Hope no harm (self-inflicted by shooting oneself in back four times) comes to those who went against the biden administration of allowing illegal invaders (aka 2024 democrat voters) just come across and readily be eligible for all benefits ahead of citizens. No restrictions regarding whether they have COVID or have not been vaccinated as this only applies to those citizens known as Republicans.
Great example of of closing the barn door after the horse runs away – kudos to the SCOTUS. There is no need to “pack” the SCOTUS, as it already is packed. Trump got snookered three times, Bush once.
Beautiful. Take that Pres. Biden.