Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced on November 15 that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s appeal regarding a Texas court ruling on immigration policy.
A U.S. District Court in Texas had declared the Biden administration’s use of the Parole-in-Place program unconstitutional. This decision followed a lawsuit filed by Idaho, Texas, and 14 other states. The Biden administration appealed the ruling, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s decision. The Supreme Court also denied the administration’s emergency petition on Thursday evening.
The Parole-in-Place program was initially designed to allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. for urgent humanitarian reasons or public benefit while their cases were processed. However, the Biden administration expanded the program, allowing over 1.3 million undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S., which the court found to be an overreach of the law.
The program is part of the broader Keeping Families Together initiative aimed at promoting family unity in immigration. The court ruling stated that the Biden administration had stretched the legal interpretation of the law too far.
Labrador stated, The Supreme Court stopped the Biden Administration’s attempt to bypass Congress and misuse immigration laws for political reasons, emphasizing the importance of upholding the rule of law.