Don’t expect the Supreme Court to rescue Biden’s parole programs |
On March 25, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem terminated the categorical parole programs the Biden administration established for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Three weeks later, a U.S. district court judge issued an order staying the termination of the program. Then, on May 30, the Supreme Court stayed the district court judge’s order pending the outcome of a decision on the merits of the termination.
This is just one of many lawsuits that have been filed to prevent President Trump from implementing his policies.
People have a right to oppose a president’s policies, but there has to be a limit. After all, he was duly elected by the people — as was his agenda.
The ACLU is the most aggressive of the litigants. During Trump’s first term, it filed 434 legal challenges against his administration. According to the ACLU, this succeeded in blocking some of Trump’s most egregious measures, such as his travel ban. When the ACLU learned that Trump was going to run again, it prepared a roadmap for another barrage of lawsuits.
Trump had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to prevail in the travel ban fight. The high court held that it was a lawful exercise of his authority to suspend the entry of illegal immigrants into the United States. I expect the same outcome for the challenge to Noem’s termination of this parole program.
The program granted “parole for up to two years to 532,000 aliens whose continued presence in the United States the Secretary deems contrary to U.S. interests.”
The parole provision,........