Supreme Court won’t allow Biden administration to impose new border enforcement priorities for now
A divided Supreme Court refused to block a lower court ruling that prevents Biden from setting new enforcement priorities for immigrants entering the U.S.
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block a lower court ruling that prevents the Biden administration from setting new enforcement priorities for immigrants entering the U.S. or living here illegally.
Instead, the court said it would take up the issue in early December.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have granted the administration’s request to begin carrying out its revised enforcement priorities, according to a brief order.
It was Jackson’s first vote in a Supreme Court case.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as Supreme Court wraps up historic termJuly 1, 202205:01The court denied an emergency request from the Justice Department to put a hold on a ruling issued by a federal judge in Texas, which had stopped the Department of Homeland Security from focusing its enforcement efforts on undocumented immigrants considered to pose the greatest threat.
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