The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is out with a new report, under the headline,
The Undocumented Population in the United States Increased to 12.2 Million in 2023.
“Undocumented,” of course, refers to illegal aliens. And the study, based on census data, wouldn’t include any of the illegal immigrants who crossed the border during the last year of the Biden Administration.
By the very nature of such phenomena, hard numbers are difficult to come by. But the newest CIS estimate represents a new record high. The actual number may be double or triple that guess.
Those figures also don’t account for the latest action of the U.S. Supreme Court. USA Today reports,
Supreme Court lets Trump revoke safe-haven program for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans.
The program, temporary protected status (TPS), involves in this instance some 532,000 people. But hold on a second, Reuters tells me,
U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen in San Francisco on Friday [night] granted an emergency motion filed by Venezuelan plaintiffs following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration can deport some Venezuelans on TPS while a challenge wends its way through the courts.
I’m exhausted. The original status granted to the half-million individuals involved was granted unilaterally, en masse, by the Biden Administration, with the stroke of an autopen. It was not an act of Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now, the lower courts seem to argue that Biden’s successor cannot undo his work in the same manner it was originally done. To revoke status, they claim, the government must pursue multi-decade, multi-million-dollar litigation against each individual immigrant.
It turns out that the Constitution is a suicide pact, after all.
