Supreme Court Rejects Challenge by Louisiana and Texas to Biden Deportation Priorities
In an 8-1 ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Biden Administration memorandum that prioritizes immigration enforcement on illegals who pose a threat to national security, public safety or who recently crossed the border.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stated in the memorandum that, because of the approximately 11 million undocumented or otherwise removable non-citizens in the country, the United States does not have the ability to remove all of them and thus would prioritize who will be removed.
In the case before the Court, Louisiana and Texas argued that federal law gives Biden less discretion to pick and choose the targets of enforcement.
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