Supreme Court says TPS recipients who arrived illegally have no right to green card
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The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have so-called temporary protected status, ruling they can't have a green card if they entered the country illegally.
In a 9-0 decision, the justices said federal law protects these immigrants from deportation and it allows them to obtain a work permit, but it does not give them a right to lawful permanent status unless they are here "pursuant to a lawful admission."
That means TPS recipients who entered the county legally as students or tourists, and stayed under TPS may obtain a green card, said Jusice Elena Kagan. But the same is not true of those who entered illegally.
"Because a grant of TPS does not come with a ticket of admission," she wrote in Sanchez vs. Mayorkas, "it does not eliminate the disqualifying effect of an unlawful entry."
Temporary protected status has been extended to about 320,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan.
But lower courts had been divided over whether these migrants, many of whom have lived here for decades, may apply for and receive lawful permanent status. Four years ago, the 9th Circuit Court in California ruled that TPS recipients were eligible for green cards even if they entered the country illegally.
The case decided by the Supreme Court began when Jose Sanchez and his wife, Sonia Gonzalez, sought green cards. They arrived from El Salvador in the late 1990s, established lives and careers in New Jersey and had four sons. But they were not lawfully admitted.
Kagan said Congress is considering legislation that would allow such TPS recipients to obtain lawful permanent resident status, but only Congress, not the court, can change the law in this respect.
"Sanchez was not lawfully admitted, and his TPS does not alter that fact," she wrote. "He therefore cannot become a permanent resident of this country."
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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A unanimous decision in favor of immigration law. No green card and no "thank you vote!"
9-0 ... darn ... nothing to blame democrats on. Moving on, a green card does not give one the right to vote in Federal elections.
Nor should a driver's license!
My CA driver's license was marked accordingly.
How long ago was that if you don't mind? If I remember correctly, didn't some locales in CA make it legal for illegals to vote in "local" elections? or didn't that pass??
It's been shown that hundreds, or even thousands, do vote
San Francisco and then some local elections in Maryland.
How 'bout that - SCOTUS - 9 - 0 - ruled the Immigration Laws are valid.
Way to go.
They can't blame anyone!
Tomorrow Joe Biden announces the Court needs 10 more justices....
If only you were kidding. He has the FDR mentality for sure. He just needs a world war to secure his legacy.
I don't even think he really knows what is going on around him, and unfortunately, I am not joking about it. I believe his handlers are making all of the decisions, and he knows that he is president in name only, and that he is to only read what he is told to read....and nothing more.
If he does he would be making a political and ethical mistake.
It’s hard to believe this was even a question.
What a shame that the SCotUS found it necessary to affirm to the USA that illegal immigration is ... illegal and that the proper path to citizenship is to first become a legal immigrant.
SMH
Goes back, mostly, to 1986 TiG. So friggin' sad that it just keeps on keep'n on.