It’s the time of year when Supreme Court decisions come thick and fast. Writing at PJ Media, Tyler O’Neal reports a unanimous Supreme Court decision that an illegal alien having achieved Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to horrific conditions extant in his (or her or its) homeland, does not thereby automatically qualify for Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) status. Such automatic qualification has been argued by immigration advocates.
Writing for the entire court, Associate Justice Elena Kagan concluded in the case of Sanchez vs. Mayorkas that:
U.S. law “generally requires a lawful admission before a person can obtain LPR status. Sanchez was not lawfully admitted, and his TPS does not alter that fact. He therefore cannot become a permanent resident of this country.”
Translation: for illegal entrants to become permanent residents requires the U.S. Congress to pass a law making that possible. Given the current composition of the House and Senate, no such law has much chance of passing. Absent an overthrow of the filibuster rule, passage is unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Don’t be surprised if the legacy media mostly ignore this decision. Hat tip to Stephen Green, posting at Instapundit, for the link.
