US Supreme Court rejects attempt to defend Trump’s immigration law

The Supreme Court of the United States rejected this Monday the Republican attempt to defend the former president’s immigration law donald trump (2017-2021), which prevented certain immigrants from obtaining legal permanent residence.

The court dismissed a lower court appeal in which fourteen prosecutors from traditionally conservative states asked to uphold the “public charge”, after the Government of President Joe Biden issued a new regulation to relax it.

That regulation ofpublic charge” denies permanent residency to applicants likely to depend on public assistance for their livelihood.

According to national media, the petition was led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and was accompanied by his colleagues from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and W.V.

The Supreme Court of the United States resumed its activity on Monday with the first cases of 2023, which could affect labor laws or the legal immunity of foreign nations.

The highest court in the United States will hear the arguments of seven cases in these first two weeks, although none of them allude to the president’s policies Joe Biden such as the cancellation of student debt -blocked by Justice in October- or Title 42, which will be addressed later.

Judges will hear their first immigration case of the year on January 17, involving transgender woman León Santos Zacaria, who said she fled Guatemala after being raped and receiving death threats because of her gender identity.

In this case, the high court will study the requirement that migrants exhaust “all available administrative resources” before appealing their immigration decisions in court, after a court found that Santos-Zacaria had failed to comply.

Source: EFE