The Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked legal standing to challenge the Biden administration's deportation priorities for undocumented immigrants. The states wanted the court to order the executive branch to make more arrests.
Migrants crossing the border in Roma were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Aug. 16, 2021., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
In a 8-1 decision, the court found that even though the states lacked legal standing to sue in this case, “we do not suggest that federal courts may never entertain cases involving the Executive Branch’s alleged failure to make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.” Judd E. Stone II, solicitor general with the Texas attorney general’s office, told the justices in November that under U.S. immigration law, the federal government has to deport every undocumented immigrant who has been ordered deported, and it can’t ignore that because of a lack of resources.
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