President Joe Biden’s administration cannot, for now, curtail arrests of illegal immigrants, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump nominee, granted a preliminary injunction sought by the states of Texas and Louisiana against two memorandums issued by Biden administration officials earlier this year that sought to “prioritize” certain categories of illegal immigrants. Not included in the categories were illegal aliens convicted of serious drug offenses or crimes of moral turpitude. The border states have seen rising costs related to detention facilities and an increase in crimes traceable to the memos, Tipton said in the 160-page order. “The Court concludes the potential harms to the States arising out of the Memoranda outweigh any potential harms to the Government. The Court also concludes the public interest is served, rather than undermined, by an injunction,” he wrote. U.S. lawyers argued that the memos did prioritize certain categories …
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