The US Supreme Court has sided with the Joe Biden administration on immigrant deportation policies. In a unanimous ruling, the nine-member court ruled to uphold a Biden administration policy that had been suspended by a Texas court. These guidelines, issued in 2021, prioritized the expulsion of immigrants deemed to pose a greater risk to public safety or who were recently intercepted after crossing the border.

Republicans asserted that all undocumented immigrants should be deported and that prioritizing is illegal because it prohibits deporting undocumented immigrants. According to Texas and Louisiana, federal immigration laws require authorities to arrest and deport even those who pose little or no risk. The Supreme Court ruling in USA v. Texas recognizes that there are not enough funds or personnel to deport the nearly 11 million people estimated to be in the United States illegally and that firm priorities can therefore be set. Most importantly, states are denied the power to challenge these decisions.

“States have filed an extraordinarily unusual lawsuit,” writes Conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who announced the verdict. “They want a federal court to order the executive branch to change their arrest policies to make more arrests. Federal courts have traditionally not heard such lawsuits; In fact, the states cite no precedent for such a lawsuit,” he continues.

“If the court were to give this lawsuit a green light, we could expect complaints for years to come about the executive branch’s alleged failure to enforce similarly worded laws, be they drug laws, gun laws, obstruction of justice laws, etc. . We refuse to pave the way for federal justice down this unexplored path,” he adds.

The ruling was approved by the Supreme Court by a vote of eight to one, although some judges support the decision with different arguments. The only opposition came from Conservative Samuel Alito, who was embroiled in a scandal this week for accepting luxury hospitality from a businessman whose case was pending in court. Alito interprets the dispute as a confrontation between Congress’ “categorical demand” that the administration “detain and deport” undocumented immigrants and the “more flexible policies” that the Biden administration is seeking.

“Today’s court response is that unless Congress can win a test of violence by withholding funds, refusing to confirm presidential candidates, threatening impeachment and impeachment, etc., the policy decision of the executive branch takes precedence.” , Alito notes in his dissenting voice. “Relegating Congress to these disruptive measures radically changes the balance of power between Congress and the Executive Branch,” he adds.

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The government stressed that the law had never been enforced in the manner claimed by Louisiana and Texas and that there were insufficient resources to detain and deport all undocumented immigrants. He explained that the guidelines were only intended to give the 6,000 immigration and customs officials guidance in deciding which immigrants posed the most pressing threats.

The ruling is more important now that Title 42 has expired, the rule that allowed short-term expulsions while the pandemic health emergency was in effect. In July, the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, refused to allow the Biden administration to use these deportation guidelines while the judges reviewed the case. This left in force a ruling by a lower court that suspended its validity on the grounds that it drastically reduced the detention of those who, by law, were required to be deported.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Biden and his administration on immigration issues a year ago, when it ruled that ending the program popularly known as “Stay in Mexico,” which forced most asylum seekers to have their applications resolved wait, didn’t break the law This is the case in immigrant camps across the border.

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Congressional Republicans on Thursday took a cautious first step in opening a possible impeachment probe into President Joe Biden, which has been called for by a handful of Trumpists.

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These elected officials accuse the Democratic leader of being responsible for an “invasion” at the United States-Mexico border because of his immigration policies.

The US Constitution provides that Congress can impeach the President with “treason, bribery, or other serious felonies and misdemeanors.”

President Biden “endangered the security of the United States and the health of the American people,” argues elect Lauren Boebert in the counts she is defending. The Colorado Republican believes the White House tenant deserves to be removed from office for this reason.

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However, a formal impeachment procedure remains very hypothetical due to a lack of political support.

The rest of the Republican opposition refuses to venture into this territory at this time for fear of turning the trial into a purely partisan affair.

Instead of directly deciding on an impeachment trial, Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday opted to vote in committee first – thereby slowing down the Trumpists’ initiative.

Democrats protested the impeachment inquiry.

Never in American history has a president been impeached. Three were indicted: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021. But all were eventually acquitted.

Richard Nixon chose to resign in 1974 to avoid a certain impeachment by Congress over the Watergate scandal.

A TikTok account discovered that ahead of the crash that killed five people, OceanGate had an “urgent” job vacancy for a submersible pilot as social media continues to be obsessed with the tragedy.

Five people were confirmed dead in the tragedy on Thursday, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61; French explorer Paul_Henry Nargeolet; British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, 58; and Pakistani father and son Shahzada Dawood, 48; and Suleman Dawood, 19.

The company posted a job posting last week on its website and networking app, Indeed, looking for a sub-pilot. It has since been removed from her Indeed page as of Friday morning.

They were looking for “a dedicated and competent individual with a combination of strong mechanical and interpersonal skills who can work on sensitive marine equipment, perform routine maintenance and operate complex dive support systems.”

According to The Messenger, several TikTok accounts spotted the post, prompting some to poke fun at the company. OceanGate has faced a lot of criticism on social media since the Titan was reported missing.

A TikTok account discovered that ahead of the crash that killed five people, OceanGate had an “urgent” job posting for a submersible pilot as social media continues to be obsessed with the tragedy

Some even believed they were already trying to replace Rush or other OceanGate employees after their deaths, although this was likely made public before this week.

“Don’t work yourself to death for any company, they will replace you before you’re even buried under the ground,” wrote one user.

“This literally proves what everyone says about companies filling your position the second you die,” wrote a second, whose video has since been removed.

A spokesman for OceanGate, which has indefinitely suspended operations at the office, said the company has not “provided any additional information” beyond its immediate response to the deaths confirmed Thursday.

The Titanic Five were killed instantly when the submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion” just 1,600 feet off the wrecked ocean liner’s bow, the US Coast Guard said yesterday. A remote-controlled submarine belonging to a Canadian ship found debris on the seabed.

However, search and rescue workers say the men likely died on Sunday – before military planes carrying sonar buoys detected what they thought could be SOS booms in the water.

The US Navy said it heard a sound suggesting an implosion when communications were cut about two hours after the dive. The Navy has relayed this information to the Coast Guard, an insider said.

According to court documents, a former OceanGate employee previously raised safety concerns about the Titan submersible.

The company posted a job posting last week on its website and networking app, Indeed, looking for a sub-pilot

Several TikTok accounts spotted the post, prompting some to poke fun at the company

OceanGate has faced a lot of criticism on social media since the Titan was reported missing

David Lochridge, former director of marine operations at OceanGate, claimed a wrongful dismissal after raising concerns about the company’s alleged “refusal to conduct critical, non-destructive testing of the experimental design.”

OceanGate boss Rush had been warned years earlier that his “experimental approach” could lead to disaster.

It would have been instant death for the men, some of whom had paid $250,000 each to see the famous shipwreck.

It’s a heavy blow to their families, experts say, and there’s little prospect of their remains being recovered.

“It’s an incredibly harsh environment down there.” “The debris indicates a catastrophic implosion of the ship. We’ll keep working and scanning the area down there — but I don’t have an answer on the prospects at this time,” Paul Hankin, a deep-sea expert involved in the study, said.

Five people were on board, including British billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman

French Navy veteran PH Nargeolet (left) was in the submarine with Stockton Rush (right), CEO of OceanGate Expedition

Rush said in a video posted online in 2021 that he “broke some rules” in making the ship, adding: “The carbon fiber and the titanium, there’s a rule, you can’t do that – I did that .”

He also said in 2020 that the hull had “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.”

Carbon fibers are prone to delamination, the process by which a material breaks into layers under pressure.

SEOUL (Portal) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called his key ally South Korea to discuss the outcome of his visit to China this month, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Blinken told South Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin he has had honest, practical and constructive dialogue with the Chinese side and wants to explain the findings of his visit in as much detail as possible, the ministry said in a statement.

Blinken and Park decided to continue communicating on ties with China and to urge Beijing to play a constructive role in suspending provocations and North Korea’s denuclearization, the ministry said.

During the visit to China, where Blinken met President Xi Jinping and other senior officials, both sides agreed to stabilize their intense rivalry lest it escalate into conflict, but failed to achieve a major breakthrough.

Meanwhile, North Korea has slammed Blinken for trying to get China to pressure Pyongyang to lay down arms and warned that its response to increased US military action on the Korean peninsula will become “more overwhelming and aggressive.” state media KCNA said on Saturday.

Blinken’s “threats” to China to pressure Pyongyang reflect a “dangerous hegemonic mentality,” KCNA said, citing a North Korean foreign ministry official.

North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast last week, less than an hour after Pyongyang warned of a response to military exercises by South Korean and American troops.

The isolated country is under international sanctions for its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Editing by William Mallard and Tom Hogue)