The Biden administration chose to illegally admit 500,000 migrants into the United States. These so-called paroled invaders were not authorized by a specific act of Congress. No more than Biden’s six figures worth of Afghans. The premise of both mass importations of foreign nationals was that once they were here, there was no getting them out. Allowing them in while their ‘legal cases’ proceeded was a sham dodge that was bound to either end in them remaining here legally or illegally.

The Trump administration pushed back on that premise and the Supreme Court agreed.

Now the media is complaining that “legal immigrants” are being threatened with deportation. There are the usual stories about businesses worried about losing their cheap labor.

Legally, this is the DACA game all over again. An administration creates a phantom legal status out of thin air for huge numbers of illegals. Last time around the Supreme Court protected that phantom status, but that was then, this is now.

One difference is that the abuse of parole authority shifted the illegality from the migrants, who in many cases were in theory following the guidance of the government, to that government which chose to use them as human shields. But it does not change the fact that they’re here illegally. The illegality may have been the work of the government, yet they still have no right to be here or to stay here.