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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 30 november 2022
Supreme Court wrestles with Biden’s deportation policy

By MARK SHERMAN federal immigration policy
Associated Press in its tracks.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The In a separate ongoing le-
Supreme Court on Tues- gal dispute, three judges
day wrestled with a parti- chosen by then-President
san-tinged dispute over a Donald Trump are among
Biden administration policy the four Republican-ap-
that would prioritize de- pointed judges who have
portation of people in the so far prevented the ad-
country illegally who pose ministration’s student loan
the greatest public safety cancellation program from
risk. It was not clear after taking effect.
arguments that stretched The states said they would
past two hours and turned face added costs of hav-
highly contentious at times ing to detain people the
whether the justices would federal government might
allow the policy to take ef- allow to remain free inside
fect, or side with Republi- the United States, despite
can-led states that have so their criminal records.
far succeeded in blocking The federal appeals court
it. At the center of the case An immigrant considered a threat to public safety and national security waits to be processed by in Cincinnati earlier over-
is a September 2021 direc- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the ICE Metropolitan Detention Center in Los turned a district judge’s
tive from the Department Angeles, after an early morning raid, June 6, 2022. Associated Press order that put the policy
of Homeland Security that on hold in a lawsuit filed
paused deportations un- er or not it can be possibly in a courthouse where it sympathetic hearing and by Arizona, Ohio and
less individuals had com- implemented or whether was guaranteed to get a that one judge stopped “a Montana.q
mitted acts of terrorism, there are difficulties there,
espionage or “egregious and I don’t think we should
threats to public safety.” change that responsibility
The guidance, issued after just because Congress and
Joe Biden became presi- the executive can’t agree
dent, updated a Trump- on something ... I don’t
era policy that removed think we should let them off
people in the country ille- the hook,” he said.
gally regardless of criminal Yet Roberts, in questioning
history or community ties. Stone, also called Prelog-
On Tuesday, the admin- ar’s argument compelling.
istration’s top Supreme “It’s impossible for the ex-
Court lawyer told the jus- ecutive to do what you
tices that federal law does want it to do, right?” Rob-
“not create an unyielding erts asked.
mandate to apprehend Roberts wasn’t totally sat-
and remove” every one isfied when Stone said the
of the more than 11 mil- number of people poten-
lion immigrants living in the tially affected total 60,000
country illegally. to 80,000.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Prelogar said it would be said that whatever the ac-
“incredibly destabilizing on tual number, “the resourc-
the ground” for the high es still aren’t there.”
court to require that. Con- The court’s three liberal jus-
gress has not given DHS tices, on the other hand,
enough money to vastly in- were sympathetic to the
crease the number of peo- Biden administration’s ar-
ple it holds and deports, guments. Justice Sonia So-
the Biden administration tomayor and Elena Kagan,
has said. made clear they believed
But Texas Solicitor General that Texas and Louisiana,
Judd Stone told the court which joined Texas in suing
that the administration vio- over the directive, weren’t
lated federal law requiring even entitled to bring their
the detention of people case.
who are in the U.S. illegally The case is the latest exam-
and who have been con- ple of a Republican litiga-
victed of serious crimes. tion strategy that has suc-
Chief Justice John Roberts ceeded in slowing Biden
was among the conserva- administration initiatives
tive justices who pushed by going to GOP-friendly
back strongly on the Biden courts.
administration’s argu- Kagan picked up on that
ments. “It’s our job to say during arguments, saying
what the law is, not wheth- that Texas could file its suit