Appeals Court Blocks Biden’s Release of Criminal Migrants
NEIL MUNRO7 Jul 2022159
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President Joe Biden must stop releasing the thousands of convicted criminal migrants who are appealing their court-ordered deportations, says a federal court.
The three-judge panel of the Firth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote:
Federal immigration law provides that the Attorney General “shall take into custody,” “shall detain,” and “shall remove” aliens convicted of certain enumerated crimes and aliens who have become subject to final orders of removal.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security “simply lacks the [legal] authority to make that [detention release] choice when the statutes plainly mandate such categorical [detention] treatment,” the judges said.
“Had the administration won … it would have gone on releasing [convicted] criminal aliens” from detention centers, said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute. “We … applaud the Fifth Circuit for denying the administration the extra time it s
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