Biden created them, and Trump is not allowed to end them? Just wait till you find out the judge’s reasoning (it’s weird because it’s an Axios piece)
Federal judge blocks Trump admin from pulling Biden-era migrant protections
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from suspending Biden-era temporary migrant protections and ordered officials to resume applications.
Why it matters: The ruling that comes as the Trump administration is moving to escalate its hardline immigration crackdown affects thousands of people who came to the country legally via temporary programs from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine.
Driving the news: President Trump in January ordered the Homeland Security Department to terminate Biden-era “parole” programs that allowed people from certain countries to temporarily live and work in the U.S. on humanitarian or public interest grounds.
State of play: U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in her order acknowledged that the Trump administration has broad discretion on immigration policy, but said it was not wholly shielded from judicial review.
“This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country,” Talwani said Wednesday.
So, wait, the Trump administration has the authority to end the policy (a goodly chunk of the Biden era programs, which last 18 months under law and Biden had renewed, will end soon or have already ended), but, the judge has decided that she will now determine how the Executive Branch is to run things? Because that is what she is saying. That she runs US immigration.
The other side: “The Biden Administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history,” DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an emailed statement Thursday.
“Under federal law, Secretary [Kristi] Noem — in support of the President — has full authority to cancel or modify these policies. Doing so is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect our national security. We have the law, the facts, and common sense on our side,” McLaughlin added.
Yes, under law passed by the duly elected Congress and signed into law by a duly elected President. Which may give a federal court authority to determine if the law is un-Constitutional, followed by the Supreme Court, but, doesn’t give the court the authority to determine how they want the law to run. The Trump admin has every legal right to cancel these programs. Barring that, repatriating all those who had the parole once it runs out. These judges are out of control.
