Win or Lose in Court, Team Biden Plays a Long Game on Illegal Immigration
May 17, 2023
A federal judge is dueling with the Biden administration after the reported release of some 2,500 migrants into the U.S. last weekend.
Judge T. Kent Wetherell has threatened to hold Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials in contempt of court for violating his order temporarily blocking parole at the border. Late Monday, the judge, sitting in Tallahassee, Fla., denied a motion by Department of Justice attorneys for a stay of the restraining order.
The DOJ lawyers’ plea was comical, if not contemptible. In part, they argued that halting the administration’s wholesale parole program “irreparably harm
the United States and the public by frustrating measures that are necessary to secure the border and protect the health and welfare of both migrants and Border Patrol agents, in light of the significant increase in the number of non-citizens [sic] who have arrived and are expected to continue to arrive in the coming days.”
Unmoved, Wetherell responded that he expects to issue a preliminary injunction. That will likely trigger an appeal by the DOJ lawyers.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2023/05/17/win-or-lose-court-team-biden-plays-long-game-illegal-immigration
