Posted on 06/21/2024 10:01:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that U.S. citizens do not have a constitutional right to guarantee their noncitizen spouse admittance into the country, something President Joe Biden tried to cement in his most recent executive order concerning the ongoing border invasion.
American Sandra Muñoz sued the federal government after her husband, Luis Asencio-Cordero, an MS-13 gang member, was denied a visa by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2015 due to “unlawful activity” the immigration officer suspected based on a gang affiliation tattoo he spotted on the El Salvador native during the interview.
Asencio-Cordero, a noncitizen, eventually “disavowed any gang membership” and, with Muñoz’s help, tried to appeal the visa case with the Department of State. The federal agency, however, agreed with USCIS’s decision, effectively asserting (along with the Supreme Court’s judgment Thursday) that a noncitizen like Asencio-Cordero has “no constitutional right to enter the United States.”
Muñoz claimed that this decision abridged her Fifth Amendment “liberty interest” and falsely construed her right to “fundamental right to marriage” as a “right to reside with her noncitizen spouse in the United States.”
The Ninth Circuit initially agreed that the Due Process Clause afforded Muñoz the right to a “facially legitimate and bona fide reason” for her husband’s denial. The high court, however, overturned this judgment.
“Muñoz’s claim to a procedural due process right in someone else’s legal proceeding would have unsettling collateral consequences,” the court wrote. “Her position would usher in a new strain of constitutional law — one that prevents the government from taking actions that ‘indirectly or incidentally’ burden a citizen’s legal rights.”
In the majority opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted that Muñoz ’s argument “fails at the threshold” because it does not prove “the right to bring her noncitizen spouse to the United States is...”
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It should help. Plus, it sets the stage for ending chain migration entirely.
Except for the fact that the rats will ignore the ruling just like the student loans.
Remember when SCOTUS said that Biden didn’t have the power to forgive student loans? That was great.
She is welcome to go live in El Salvador with him. No one is stopping her.
Thank You Lord!
More likely, sets the stage for starting chain deportations...
Even better!!! Start with DACA and their illegal parents and family members. Plus, of course, anyone that came into the country under Biden.
Seems like there has been a lot of 6-3 decisions lately. Probably adding rule to the left wing fire in terms of the scotus
What executive order? It's just policy, he hasn't issued a eo for this, nor did Obama with DACA.
Wow, what a model citizen he would be. Typical.
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