A federal judge presiding over a major legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies lashed out at Justice Department attorneys, accusing them of trying to rush him into making a key decision in the case
Migrants return to Mexico, using the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river in Matamoros, Mexico, on the border with Brownsville, Texas, on July 31, 2019. | Emilio Espejel/AP PhotoA federal judge presiding over a major legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies lashed out Monday at Justice Department attorneys, accusing them of trying to rush him into making a key decision in the case.
“This is the view of the United States,” Kirschner said. “I can’t speak to internal deliberations. It shows the urgency that we have and the great irreparable harm posed by the injunction.”“Who’s idea was it?” he demanded. “Were you involved in it?” The judge eventually relented, but not before again expressing his displeasure. “That did not make my week,” he said.
During the remainder of Monday's nearly hour-long hearing, Tipton sparred with the government on other topics, chiefly about interpretation of the preliminary injunction he issued last week in the suit brought by the states of Texas and Louisiana. The suit claims that in directives issued last January and February, the Biden administration defied Congress by effectively declaring that certain immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally would not be detained despite criminal records.
Kirschner said the judge’s ruling would have a major impact on immigration enforcement by wiping out the existing enforcement guidelines.
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