Judge Gorsuch right to note Biden’s twisted logic on immigration

The president is using a COVID-19 policy to limit the surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border

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January 3, 2023 - 5:32 PM

Migrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

The emergence of immigration policy as a constant source of seeming contradiction under President Joe Biden was a development few expected. Improbably, this was underscored this week by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch — a conservative appointed by Donald Trump.

At Chief Justice John Roberts’ behest, the high court on short notice took up a request to block a lower court’s ruling terminating a March 2020 order by the Trump-run Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The directive said an obscure public health law known as Title 42 allowed U.S. border agents to…

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