[HotAir] Another Anti-Trump Pipsqueak "Judge" bitch-slappedin January, as border crossings dropped to near-unbelievable and infinitesimal numbers considering what they had been merely 12 months before, the Trump administration was already on the hunt, looking for the next way to tighten up on illegal aliens in the country.
One obvious starting point was visa overstays. There are any number of countries whose citizens routinely overstay their visas, and once those numbers started coming in, Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved quickly to shut that pipeline down in the interest of the 'public charge' - identifying countries of origin whose arrivals swiftly and routinely wind up on public benefits.
He announced they were indefinitely suspending visa processing (for jobs and family, not student and tourist) from 75 countries, which officially began on January 21, until the State Department could put more stringent vetting processes in place to ensure the newer, stricter rules were followed. Some of the countries were already on the outright banned list.
The well-established immigration industry in the United States went into overdrive at the announcement, and among others, one of the most notorious was part of a filed lawsuit - Catholic Legal Immigration Network.
As this has wound its way through the court system, the State Department has kept the pressure up on visa holders already within the US. They've revoked some 175,000, according to SecState.
As of this past Friday, a Manhattan judge decided that the State Department didn't have the authority to stop someone from getting a visa simply because of their country of origin, and she struck down Rubio's program as discriminatory.
Judge Jeannette Vargas said Rubio was acting outside his lane because the visa's outcome was 'predetermined.'
Judge Vargas gave the government until September 11 to resolve the remaining issues in the case, and the government can appeal her decision.
Her order also doesn't impact any visas denied for other legitimate reasons - just those under the blanket policy - and it doesn't have any other effect on the forward-going immigration push to remove the illegal aliens and visa overstays here.
The other thing cases like this are doing is exposing to the public eye who the enemy combatant non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are that are actively fighting legal immigration enforcement efforts to remove the illegals that these NGOs were paid so handsomely - up until the Trump administration took office - to flood the country with.
Digging in a little bit, as I tend to like to do when things piss me off, I had a question about this Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). They are fighting tooth and nail for illegals. Taking the government to court over enforcement. Providing illegal aliens, border jumpers, and those who use precious resources the American people pay for and need themselves with legal assistance to defend themselves against the government.