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The high court turned down a request from Democratic-led cities
who say the rule was used to help crime victims and neglected
juveniles and should be revived.
Texas and the Trump administration agreed to a court order
blocking the regulation after the state sued. Texas alleged that
the practice called administrative closure was dramatically
expanded under former President Joe Biden and effectively
allowed people to stay in the country indefinitely.
The cities of Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio and New Haven,
Connecticut, along with the legal group Centro Legal de la Raza,
had asked to join the case to defend the regulation. They filed
an emergency appeal before the Supreme Court after a judge
refused to allow them to intervene.
Represented by the group Democracy Forward, they argued that
Texas and the Trump administration had worked together to allow
the regulation to be permanently blocked in court, bypassing a
public rulemaking process.
The Justice Department had urged the justices to deny the
appeal, saying the cities had no legal standing to challenge the
settlement and they had not shown they'd suffer immediate legal
harm.
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