By Federale
07/23/2022
The Biden Regime Administrative Amnesty for Criminal Aliens has been dealt a blow by the Supreme Court. Lower court rulings in favor of an initial District Court decision striking down the Biden Regime Administrative Amnesty for Criminal Aliens were reviewed by the high court and no stay of the lower court ruling was issued.
Biden just can’t help himself from breaking immigration law. They’ve begged every court to let them off the hook, & every time the court says “no.” SCOTUS has made clear that Biden must detain criminal illegal aliens. https://t.co/ECEf3PVjaI
— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) July 22, 2022
This is another Ken Paxton victory with Texas the lead plaintiff in the case. (h/t author and reader W. R. Flynn, read his latest book, Outsider, about life in the early 70s in the San Francisco Bay Area)
The Biden amnesty for criminal aliens was an end to the statutorily required detention of criminal aliens and aliens who unlawfully enter the United States. The Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, requires that criminal aliens be detained when encountered by an immigration officer per Title 8 United States Code (USC) Section 1226(c) Arrest, Detention, and Release, and arriving illegal aliens be detained under Title 8 USC 1231(a) Detention and Removal of Aliens Ordered Removed. The two statutes require the detention of criminal aliens and the detention of alien in removal proceedings. The Biden Regime is ignoring the statutory requirement that criminal aliens and aliens in deportation proceedings shall be detained, releasing both dangerous criminal aliens and newly arrived illegal aliens flooding the nation from Mexico into the United States. The Biden Regime seems to consider the laws of the United States just suggestions.
General Paxton Defeating The Biden Regime Administrative Amnesties
The U.S. Supreme Court gave Texas and Louisiana a temporary legal victory in the border states’ attempt to strike down a September 2021 Biden administration immigration guideline.
The Supreme Court, in a ruling without explanation on Thursday, allowed a federal judge in Texas to block the Biden Administration’s immigration guideline that, according to the border states’ prosecutors, limits the ability of border agents to detain and deport illegal aliens.
The ruling is a political setback for the Biden administration as it tries to juggle an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration, overburdened Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and an agenda to replace the Trump administration’s more stringent border policy amid bipartisan criticism.
[Supreme Court Blocks Biden Admin Policy Narrowing Detainment, Deportation of Illegal Aliens, by Gary Bai, Epoch Times, July 22, 2022]
This is another major victory for Ken Paxton, who keeps defeating the various Biden Regime Administrative Amnesties point by point. Are we looking at the next Attorney General of the United States? One could hope — as ideological as Jeff Sessions, but smarter, and not controlled by Rod Rosenstein.
TX handing Biden so many huge loses.
First Biden tells DHS they don’t have to detain criminal illegals. Court strikes down. Biden appeals. Loses. Biden goes to SCOTUS. Just now, loses again!
Feds MUST detain illegals. I’ll keep fighting in court until they do their job! pic.twitter.com/PpLNpgkpHx
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) July 21, 2022
Thank you, General Paxton.
Now let me address a strange development in immigration reporting over the last several years or so, the use of “detainment” to replace “detention” in the press. I noticed it some years ago in the left-wing press. Having already worked in law enforcement and immigration enforcement for over 20 years when this trend started, I was nonplussed. Is “detainment” even a word? Whether in immigration enforcement or law enforcement in general, I had never heard that word used by law enforcement or immigration enforcement professionals. In both general law enforcement and immigration enforcement “detention” was always the word used when describing the process of taking custody of an arrestee or subject. There does not appear to be any great political implication of this word-use change, but it was started by the radical Left when commenting on or reporting on immigration arrests. Very strange. I am suspicious that there is some political motivation behind it, but cannot see it. Other than as a flex to show their power, and the right-leaning press just follows along. Just like the misuse of the word “gender” to replace the word “sex,” which obviously had serious political motivations and implications.
But what is not strange is Ken Paxton’s victories. I have great hopes for him.
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