Submitted by: Larry Jordan
Victory! Supreme Court Blocks
Illegal-Alien Legalization
WASHINGTON—Today the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that
Congress did not reward illegal border-crossing by providing a pathway for
illegal aliens to become legal. The plaintiffs, illegal aliens who were granted
temporary protectedstatus (TPS) because of a disaster in their home country, had
sought to adjust their status to that of lawful permanent resident. The Immigration
Reform Law Institute (IRLI) had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case urging
the result the Court reached.
Justice Kagan, writing for the Court, found that TPS status cannot be used
to work a transformation from illegal to legal. Rather, the status jump that
plaintiffs claimed as their right rests on a strained and untenable reading of
the statutory scheme. Though Congress did extend TPS to certain illegal aliens
out of humanitarian concern, today the Court upheld the principle that even those
illegal aliens, having never been admitted, by law are not eligible for adjustment
to permanent residence and citizenship.
“Thankfully, today the Court declined to water down the law, but instead
maintained the standard that illegal entry into our country will not be tolerated,
much less rewarded,” said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel
of IRLI. “We are seeing right now what happens when deliberate non-
enforcement sends the opposite message: an engineered surge, crisis and
chaos, at the border. We are pleased that the Court refused to add to that
crisis today.”
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