Supreme Court denies request to reinstate Biden immigration enforcement priorities memo

The U.S. Supreme Court denies request to reinstate President Biden’s immigration enforcement policy, which narrows immigration arrests and deportations to high “priority” targets such as national security, while his administration fights a court order blocking the policy. Here is the order. The Supreme Court will hear the case on the merits in the first week of the December session.

More context on this breaking development from the NY Times here and in-depth discussion of priorities and prosecutorial discretion from Shoba Wadhia in Beyond Deportation.

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