After the Supreme Court ruled that states lack standing to sue President Joe Biden's administration for not enforcing federal immigration law, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he will reinstate the agency's so-called "Sanctuary country" orders that shield most of the nation's illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that "a citizen lacks standing to contest the policies of the prosecuting authority when he himself is neither prosecuted nor threatened with prosecution" and thus states lacked standing to sue over the orders.
Following the Supreme Court's ruling, Mayorkas said he will reinstate the orders to begin ensuring that most of the nation's 11 to 22 million illegal aliens are not eligible for deportation.
Lora Ries, director of Heritage's Border Security and Immigration Center, said the ruling "Disregards the costs that states have accrued" from illegal aliens not being detained and, thus, deported by ICE agents.
As Breitbart News reported, the orders were hugely impactful in terms of cutting the number of arrests and deportations of illegal aliens in Fiscal 2021 before federal courts stopped them from being implemented while the case was litigated up to the Supreme Court.
Before the orders were implemented, ICE agents were deporting about 121 illegal aliens every day.
After the orders went into effect, ICE agents were left deporting just 65 illegal aliens every day.
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