[Epoch Times] The federal government’s program of releasing many illegal immigrants rather than holding them until their cases are resolved violates federal law, a U.S. judge ruled on March 8.
"The evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country," U.S. District Judge Judge T. Kent Wetherell, a Trump appointee, said in the ruling. So now what?
Wetherell struck down Alternatives to Detention, a program through which President Joe Biden’s administration has released more than one million aliens into the U.S. interior.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a Republican, sued the government in 2021 over the policy, arguing the catch-and-release policy violated federal law.
Biden administration officials have claimed they had the discretion not to hold immigrants and that Florida lacked standing.
Under Supreme Court precedent, immigration officials have "broad discretion" in carrying out immigration laws, but must adhere to laws established by Congress. The Immigration and Nationality Act, one such law, states that immigrants who arrive at the border without proper documents are subject to quick removal without a hearing or review. Immigrants who claim asylum can have their claims heard but "shall be detained" until the claims are resolved.
The "shall be detained" wording "means what it says and that is a mandatory requirement," Wetherell said in the new ruling.
The judge also said Florida has standing because it has a procedural right under Administrative Procedure Act and a quasi-sovereign interest in its territory and on illegal aliens being within that territory. The government’s failure to hold immigrants as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the judge, harms states because "they cannot do anything to keep those aliens out of the state." States are also harmed because they have to spend money to deal with the aliens, the ruling said. Send 'em all back? Oh, the horror! So unfair! Lots of harpy screeching.
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What about if the immigration service is transporting them across the border and about the country like they are Illegal Immigrant Uber rather than the arm of government charged with enforcing immigration law?
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State of Florida lacks standing? Well then, who's gonna pay for those people when Biden buses them to Florida? Biden? Hmmm?
I fear that SCOTUS will bite on this claim.
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03/09/2023 12:07 Comments ||
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Not sure why the commenter said this. What the article stated is: The judge also said Florida has standing because it has a procedural right under Administrative Procedure Act and a quasi-sovereign interest in its territory and on illegal aliens being within that territory.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/09/2023 14:37 Comments ||
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From the article:
Biden administration officials have claimed they had the discretion not to hold immigrants and that Florida lacked standing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/09/2023 14:48 Comments ||
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"have claimed" - they say a lot, but keep losing in actual court hearings
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Any unprotected, dimly lit areas which could result in tragic falls at the French Laundry ?
I'd imagine everyone who was quoting Yertle the Turtle the last couple days is looking for a relevant suggestion for tonight's reading. I understand he has come down with The Koof (at least, claimed to), so maybe somebody is already on it.
[Daily Mail] Over the course of two years, hundreds of witness interviews, and 10 highly choreographed public hearings, Democrats in Congress sought to create a carefully constructed story of the January 6th Capitol Hill riots.
How fitting that such an extravagant outlay of government resources would be thrown on the trash heap by a single cable news segment.
On Monday night, Fox News' Tucker Carlson played never-before-seen footage of the Capitol riot. The closed-circuit security tape appears to show the notorious, so-called QAnon Shaman (a.k.a. Jacob Chansley) being led through the halls of Congress by police.
The video has no audio, so we can't hear what the police told Chansley. But we can see with our own eyes - Chansley didn't overpower anyone.
In fact, it looks like Capitol Police willingly guided him, shirtless and adorned in horns, into the Senate chamber for his infamous photo-op.
So, for all the effort and expense poured into the January 6th committee, why is America only seeing this footage now?
The answer is obvious. It didn't fit the Democrats' narrative, so it was left out. We will all be shocked, of course, when the Dems win the next election with the widest margin ever /sarc
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They have a backing bell on with regard to Covid origins and such. There is no room to back up on J6 due to the people in pre-trial confinement.
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Chansley plead guilty to 'obstructing an official proceeding'
the new video tape evidence is not exculpatory to that charge
however, the new video, showing him mostly complying with instructions of capital police, may be exculpatory to his 41 month sentence - I don't know how that works in D.C.
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And how long was he in the J7 Gulag, in solitary confinement before he gave up and pleaded guilty?
His defense attorney was never given access to these video - so I imagine he accepted a plea deal based on 'plead guilty to this lesser charge, and get the mental help you need --OR-- back to solitary confinement until we try you in a few years'.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland... ’s incompetent response to the unprecedented winter storms that have buried mountain towns in both Northern and Southern California under more than a foot of snow has led to the deaths of at least three people in San Bernardino County, and those involved in volunteer search and rescue efforts believe that body count will climb.
While the area receives some snow every year and has snow plows and other snow removal equipment, it received a year’s worth (or more) of snow over a seven-day period. Newsom declared a State of Emergency the morning of March 2 just prior to jetting off for Cabo for the weekend, but the promised assistance from state officials still hasn’t arrived, for the most part — and that’s had deadly consequences. And caught Covid in Messico
Longtime resident Susie Newman-Harrison, a private pilot affiliated with CalDART, a volunteer network of pilots who help during disasters, including this one, described the conditions on the morning of Tuesday, March 7:
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Blame the battery-powered generators for lack of heat and battery-powered snowblowers for the exceptional street clearing.
On the serious side, saw a video dated 1 March where a Union Pacific freight engine was creeping through an intersection: seems to me if a locomotive could get there, some outside the box thinking could have put some freight cars behind it with supplies or a cut of passenger cars (UP has their heritage pax fleet all tuned up for season’s excursions) to evacuate those stranded.
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Southern California mountains get snow but it's highly unusual for them to get this much snow. Must be global warming. But, of course, we're still in a drought.
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Death toll now at 12 and expected to grow significantly. Some residents have gone 14 days without power or access to supplies.
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Well, you see, apparently Newsom has the sniffles and tested positive with The Covid, so he's the real victim here. If you could just give him a week m'kay he will be right back on his policy road tour.
Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the administrative state.
[Powerline] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... is taking a whole-of-government approach to torturing new Twitter under Elon Musk into silence. Those damn Twitter Files have gotten under someone’s skin and the FTC is on the case, demanding that Twitter "identify all journalists" who have had a look. That should get someone’s attention. The FTC demand is part of a broader investigation on which the Wall Street Journal reports here ("The FTC is also seeking to depose Mr. Musk in connection with the probe"). The New York Post reports the story in accessible form here. Fox News reports on the demand for the identification of journalists'.
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A friend (who was in military intelligence) laughingly gave me the following advice many years ago. When making a telephone call say the following: "Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Hello NSA!" Of course technology has caught up with whimsy and it doesn't seem so funny these days.
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Emacs spook function
If you use emacs it has a spook function, just type M-x spook and it will paste some suitable words into the current buffer, heres a few examples of its output:
Croatian nuclear FBI colonel plutonium Ortega Waco, Texas Panama CIA DES jihad fissionable quiche terrorist World Trade Center
assassination DES NORAD Delta Force Waco, Texas SDI explosion Serbian Panama Uzi Ft. Meade SEAL Team 6 Honduras PLO NSA
terrorist Ft. Meade strategic supercomputer $400 million in gold bullion quiche Honduras BATF colonel Treasury domestic disruption SEAL Team 6 class struggle smuggle [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance]
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s FCC pick, Gigi Sohn, withdrew her nomination Tuesday after she faced criticism for her anti-police rhetoric and other controversial views.
Sohn withdrew her nomination after facing severe criticism from both Republicans and Democrats over her controversial views. This ends the 16-month battle over her nomination.
The Democrat nominee said she decided to withdraw after facing “unrelenting, dishonest, and cruel attacks” from the cable and media lobbyists. Democrat commissioners at the FCC have been stalled from carrying out their agenda because they have been unable to secure a majority at the agency.
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"And darling, we sssimply musst put a sauron ring on your left index finger. You can go by Miss and show how stunning and brave you are! Oooo gives me the gigglesss."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The judge also said Florida has standing because it has a procedural right under Administrative Procedure Act and a quasi-sovereign interest in its territory and on illegal aliens being within that territory. The government’s failure to hold immigrants as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the judge, harms states because "they cannot do anything to keep those aliens out of the state." States are also harmed because they have to spend money to deal with the aliens, the ruling said.
...the Mitt Romneyesque mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s FCC pick, 
