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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe, Maya Yang and agencies

Supreme court sides with Biden in Republican challenge to migrant policy

Haitian migrants at the Rio Grande. The justices on the nine-member bench ruled 8-1 in favor of the government.
Haitian migrants at the Rio Grande. The justices on the nine-member bench ruled 8-1 in favor of the government. Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images

The US supreme court said on Friday it will stop standing in the way of a long-blocked Biden administration policy to prioritize the deportation of immigrants who are deemed to pose the greatest public safety risk or were picked up at the US-Mexico border.

The justices rejected a challenge from some Republican-led states to a policy that, the administration said, recognizes there is not enough money or workers to deport all 11 million-plus people whom the government deems to be in the United States illegally.

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