The Supreme Court handed the Biden immigration agenda another loss Tuesday, refusing to bring back a 2024 rule that let immigration judges hit pause on deportation cases. The unanimous, unsigned order means the rule stays dead, and not a single justice even bothered to write a dissent.
Finally some common sense, right? Biden’s failed administration flooded America with third-worlders in hopes to turn them into voters for Democrats who can’t find any Americans to support them. But hey, that’s the Democrat’s fault. If they didn’t want men in the women’s bathroom or competing against teenage girls in sports, then just maybe they would find supporters. Or perhaps the Democrats can stop raising taxes and stealing our money when they fail to manage a budget. But of course, someone has to suck at politics and that’s what Democrats are for.
The rule in question gave immigration judges power to grant what’s called “administrative closure,” letting them suspend deportation proceedings in certain cases, like when a crime victim is seeking asylum from a separate agency. Sounds almost reasonable until you realize who was running the show that cooked it up. Texas sued in federal court in Wichita Falls, calling the rule “one part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s campaign to undermine our immigration laws.” Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor agreed and threw the rule out the same day it was argued.
That’s where it gets entertaining. A few hours after Texas filed the case, the DOJ and Texas jointly asked Judge O’Connor to rule against the Biden rule. The same DOJ that created the rule asked the court to kill it. The Trump administration had simply stopped defending it, which is exactly what you do when your predecessor spent four years building a deportation-delay machine. Biden immigration administrative closure rule
Three cities, Baltimore, New Haven, and Columbus, along with a legal services group called Centro Legal de la Raza, tried to jump into the case to save the rule since neither Texas nor the federal government wanted to. O’Connor said they had no legal standing to sue, specifically rejecting the cities’ argument that deporting their taxpayers would cost them money. The 5th Circuit agreed. Then the challengers ran to the Supreme Court on October 9, calling the whole arrangement “egregious collusion” and asking the justices to step in.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer pushed back, telling the Court the challengers were trying to turn a narrow standing dispute into a sweeping attack on the consent agreement itself. Texas told the justices that putting the ruling on hold “would revive a rule the district court declared unlawful, renew the fiscal and sovereign injuries Texas alleged, and unsettle a final judgment accepted by the actual parties.” Four days after briefing wrapped up, the Court said no, without a single word of explanation.
What happens next is that the challengers’ appeal continues at the 5th Circuit, though they’ll be doing it without the rule in effect. The cities and the legal services group can keep arguing, but the Biden-era deportation pause button stays off. The Supreme Court just made sure of that, unanimously, quietly, and without ceremony, which is probably the most brutal way to lose.
Democrats spent years building a bureaucratic maze to slow down deportations, and the Trump DOJ dismantled it by simply agreeing with Texas in federal court. That’s not collusion, that’s called winning. Get used to it.
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