President Joe Biden's tenure in office has been marked by an unusually high number of losses at the U.S. Supreme Court, with another defeat added to the tally just last week.
As KTVB reports, Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador announced on Friday that the high court rejected a Biden administration emergency appeal of a lower court's decision in a key immigration policy.
At issue was an emergency petition filed by the Biden administration asking the Supreme Court to rule on the controversial immigration policy commonly referred to as “Parole-in-Place.”
The program was touted by the administration as a key component of its “Keeping Families Together” initiative, which sought to help noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens secure parole as a precursor of eventually achieving citizenship themselves.
In the wake of a lawsuit filed by Idaho, Texas, and more than a dozen other states, a federal court in the Lone Star State declared the administration's use of the policy to be unconstitutional.
In the aftermath of that ruling, the Biden administration sought relief from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which declined to block the lower court's determination.
From there, the Biden administration sought emergency review from the highest court in the land, a move that was subsequently rebuffed.
In the wake of the high court's decision, Labrador issued a press release heralding the outcome and pledging to continue the fight against unchecked immigration.
The AG began, “The Supreme Court stopped the Biden Administration's latest attempt to skirt Congress and misapply our immigration laws for political ends.”
Labrador continued, “We cannot and will not abandon the moral position that the rule of law is integral to the survival of our Republic.”
The press release noted that the Parole-in-Place program was initially designed to permit illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. on a case-by-case basis for “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”
However, Labrador added, the program had been “contorted by the Administration which claimed 'unfettered discretion: to interpret and implement it, resulting in over 1.3 million individuals to remain in the country as a result.
The Supreme Court's decision could be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of a seismic shift when it comes to immigration, particularly amid news that former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan has been named “border czar” for the incoming Trump administration, as Newsweek noted.
Pledging last week to, among other things, root out criminal gangs coming into the country illegally, Homan added, “As far as Tren de Aragua and MS-13...my gang's bigger than your gang, and we're going to take you out, too,” suggesting that “shock and awe” will be the order of the day as he helps “take this country back.”
