Obama-Era Judge Orders Trump to Preserve Biden Program, Letting in Thousands of Migrants
Well, Americans, it’s happened again. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of none other than Barack Obama, just threw a wrench in the works. President Trump has been clear. He wants to end the reckless Biden-era migrant parole programs. These are the ones letting hundreds of thousands into our country with little more than a promise. The President signed an executive order back on January 20th. He directed the government to end “all categorical parole programs” set up by the previous administration. A straightforward plan. A necessary one.
But Judge Talwani, from her perch in Massachusetts, thinks she knows better. On Wednesday, May 28th, she ordered the Trump administration to resume processing applications for these very programs. We’re talking about migrants from Afghanistan. From Latin America. From Ukraine. The ones President Trump rightly identified as needing a closer look. She rejected the administration’s perfectly reasonable claim. The claim that suspending these programs was within its broad discretion to direct immigration policy. Apparently, the President can’t even manage his own immigration policies anymore.
The judge actually tried to justify this. She said it wasn’t in the “public interest” for these individuals to become “unlawfully present.” She worried they couldn’t “legally work.” It’s a familiar song, isn’t it? The bleeding hearts always find a reason to keep the floodgates open.
“This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families,” the judge wrote.
Manufacture a circumstance? The only thing being manufactured here is an excuse. An excuse to ignore the law. An excuse to undermine a President trying to secure our borders. Thankfully, the Justice Department sees it differently. When Talwani pulled a similar stunt back in April, regarding migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the DOJ pushed back hard. Axios reported the DOJ argued her order “blocks the Executive Branch from exercising its discretionary authority over a key aspect of the Nation’s immigration and foreign policy and thwarts Congress’s express vesting of that decision in the Secretary, not courts.” That’s lawyer-speak for “stay in your lane, judge.”
But Judge Talwani, from her perch in Massachusetts, thinks she knows better. On Wednesday, May 28th, she ordered the Trump administration to resume processing applications for these very programs. We’re talking about migrants from Afghanistan. From Latin America. From Ukraine. The ones President Trump rightly identified as needing a closer look. She rejected the administration’s perfectly reasonable claim. The claim that suspending these programs was within its broad discretion to direct immigration policy. Apparently, the President can’t even manage his own immigration policies anymore.
The judge actually tried to justify this. She said it wasn’t in the “public interest” for these individuals to become “unlawfully present.” She worried they couldn’t “legally work.” It’s a familiar song, isn’t it? The bleeding hearts always find a reason to keep the floodgates open.
“This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families,” the judge wrote.
Manufacture a circumstance? The only thing being manufactured here is an excuse. An excuse to ignore the law. An excuse to undermine a President trying to secure our borders. Thankfully, the Justice Department sees it differently. When Talwani pulled a similar stunt back in April, regarding migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the DOJ pushed back hard. Axios reported the DOJ argued her order “blocks the Executive Branch from exercising its discretionary authority over a key aspect of the Nation’s immigration and foreign policy and thwarts Congress’s express vesting of that decision in the Secretary, not courts.” That’s lawyer-speak for “stay in your lane, judge.”
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