The Trump administration can’t immediately revoke the deportation protections and work permits of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the U.S. legally under a Biden-era program, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its plan to terminate the legal status of those migrants on April 24. The administration had warned those affected by its announcement that they would need to self deport by that date or face arrest and deportation by federal immigration agents.
But Talwani suspended the deportation warnings the government had sent and prohibited officials from revoking the legal protection, known as immigration parole, that the Biden administration granted to more than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
They didn’t really, though. They gave him immunity from being prosecuted for what he does as president…but that doesn’t mean everything he does is legal. His orders can still be struck down in court (or at least they should be).
The problem right now, is the fact that he is just ignoring the court’s orders. That is still illegal, even if he may not necessarily be prosecuted for it later. We’ll see what happens though. At some point the law needs to either hold up against him, or it means nothing, and the Constitution itself is no longer valid.
His orders can be struck down? You mean like the two times they defied court orders just today, and one of them was a unanimous SCOTUS ruling, with this Court?
That’s the freedom from judicial authority he was given.
The SCOTUS ruling you’re referring to, while still a terrible precedent as a matter of policy, did not give him a blanket legal right to disregard court orders. He’s just doing it anyway.
Except, that’s NOT the freedom he was given. That’s what he’s doing…but that was not what the Supreme Court ruled.
No, that’s noncompliance - and by completely misrepresenting the supreme court’s order, they’re playing chicken
The judiciary moves slowly. They have powers they’re hesitant to use - they can order Marshalls to act and see who they obey, or they could deputize a bunch of retired special forces to enforce their decisions outside of the executive branch’s control
It’s not over… Not just yet, anyways. But it’s very, very close - if the judiciary backs down, it’s over. If the administration holds their ground until there’s an armed skirmish, it’s going to get very messy. If both sides keep up this back and forth without forcing a standoff, it could drag on for a while
But it’s not over yet, it’s just not looking good
