U.S. Supreme Court wrestles over Biden’s immigration enforcement policy

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday from a Texas lawsuit on whether the Biden Administration can instruct border agents to focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of felonies or pose a danger to public safety.

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The federal government has argued it doesn’t have the resources to deport the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Texas, which sued the Biden administration and has so far been successful in blocking its policy, argued that under federal immigration law, the government has the duty to deport every undocumented immigrant.

The case, Texas v. Biden, reached the Supreme Court after Texas and Louisiana sued the Biden administration in April 2021 for changing immigration enforcement priorities after Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, issued a memorandum instructing immigration agents to target undocumented immigrants who are convicted of felonies or pose a risk to public safety.

In Tuesday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the states argued that the federal government is selectively enforcing immigration law and that because some undocumented immigrants are not being deported, the states are incurring costs for incarceration, education and health care. Elizabeth B. Prelogar, solicitor general with the Department of Justice, argued that the federal government didn’t stop enforcing immigration law but instead is using its resources efficiently.

Justice Elena Kagan said Texas had strategically filed its case in a court in which the judge has previously ruled in the state’s favor.

 

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