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US Supreme Court denies immigration judges the power to shelve deportation cases · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: The U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency request to restore
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  Speaker 1: the authority of federal immigration judges to temporarily shelve deportation proceedings,
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  Speaker 1: delivering a major victory to executive immigration enforcement efforts six
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  Speaker 1: days before the midterm elections. In a brief, one-sentence order
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  Speaker 1: issued Tuesday, the justices declined to unfreeze a Biden-era regulation
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  Speaker 1: that permitted immigration judges to use administrative closure. to pause
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  Speaker 1: active removal cases while non-citizens pursued humanitarian protections, family visa petitions,
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  Speaker 1: or appeals. The decision leaves intact a nationwide injunction issued
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  Speaker 1: by a federal judge in Texas, effectively compelling immigration tribunals
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  Speaker 1: to maintain active dockets. The legal battle stems from a
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  Speaker 1: June lawsuit filed by the state of Texas challenging the
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  Speaker 1: practice as an unlawful grant of de facto amnesty that
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  Speaker 1: allowed undocumented immigrants to remain in the country indefinitely. Rather
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  Speaker 1: than defending the regulation, the Justice Department entered into a
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  Speaker 1: joint agreement with Texas authorities to invalidate the rule, prompting U.S.
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  Speaker 1: District Judge Reed O'Connor to permanently block the procedure nationwide.
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  Speaker 1: Municipalities including Baltimore, New Haven, and Columbus, alongside legal advocacy organizations,
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  Speaker 1: appealed to the Supreme Court, alleging the federal government engaged
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  Speaker 1: in manufactured litigation with state officials to dismantle administrative closure
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  Speaker 1: without standard rulemaking procedures. Immigration law experts and judicial advocacy
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  Speaker 1: groups warn that eliminating administrative closure will cause severe operational
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  Speaker 1: bottlenecks across already overburdened immigration courts. Historically used by judges
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  Speaker 1: to manage heavy caseloads, the procedure allowed individuals cooperating with
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement, crime victims, and young immigrants seeking special protections
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  Speaker 1: to pause their removal proceedings while outside agencies process their
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  Speaker 1: legal claims. Without the ability to shelve cases, judges must
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  Speaker 1: issue final deportation orders or schedule immediate hearings, even when
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  Speaker 1: an individual has a pending legal pathway to permanent residency.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court's order arrives amidst an intense focus on
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  Speaker 1: border enforcement, judicial independence, and executive authority as voters prepare
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  Speaker 1: to go to the polls on November 3rd. White House
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  Speaker 1: officials praised the outcome as an essential step toward restoring
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  Speaker 1: efficiency and accountability to the immigration system, while civil rights
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  Speaker 1: attorneys pledged to challenge the underlying jurisdictional agreements in lower
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  Speaker 1: appellate courts. As the national debate over immigration policy intensifies
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  Speaker 1: in the campaign's final sprint, the high court's action reinforces
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  Speaker 1: executive control over federal removal dockets.