Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana accused an Obama-appointed federal judge of exceeding her authority Tuesday by blocking the revocation of parole for over 500,000 illegal immigrants.
United States District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts imposed a nationwide injunction barring the Trump administration from deporting migrants who entered the country during the Biden administration under the “CHNV program.” Kennedy said that Talwani “doesn’t know the law” while blasting her for using a nationwide injunction.
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“The judge is wrong. He or she, obviously, doesn’t know the law book from a J.Crew catalog. I believe this judge issued a national injunction. In my judgment, those are illegal,” Kennedy told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith and guest co-host Bill Melugin. “A national injunction is when two parties go to court, plaintiff and defendant and that federal judge issues a ruling that doesn’t just apply to those two parties in court. It applies to the whole country.”
“Now, there is no basis in statutory law for that. There is no basis in Supreme Court precedent for that. There is no basis English common law for that, on which our justice system is based. The Supreme Court could fix it, and I hope it does quickly,” Kennedy continued.
The Trump administration announced it was ending the program, which allowed Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to receive parole and enter the country, in March. These migrants may not have been able to secure visas through a normal process, according to the America First Policy Center.
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Prior to discussing the injunction by Talwani, Kennedy also defended President Donald Trump’s decision to deport certain violent illegal immigrants to El Salvador. Trump issued several executive orders upon taking office on Jan. 20 to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.
“I think the president is right. If you are in our country illegally, you are a criminal. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh. And I think there are plenty of laws President Biden ignored to allow us to deport you,” Kennedy said. “I mean, to me, it is straightforward and people who oppose that approach, it seems to me, are not being intellectually honest and ought to go ahead and admit they support open borders.”
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