林赛·怀特赫斯特 华盛顿 —— 最高法院周二拒绝介入一项关于拜登时代移民规定的争议，该规定允许移民法官暂停部分驱逐程序。
LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined to intervene Tuesday in a dispute over a Biden-era immigration regulation that allowed immigration judges to pause some deportation proceedings.
最高法院驳回了由民主党执政的城市提出的请求，这些城市称该规定被用于帮助犯罪受害者和被忽视的未成年人，应当恢复实施。
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.
得克萨斯州和特朗普政府同意了一项法院命令，在该州提起诉讼后阻止了该规定。得克萨斯州指控，被称为“行政结案”的做法在前总统乔·拜登任下大幅扩张，实际上允许人们无限期留在该国。
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.
巴尔的摩、俄亥俄州哥伦布、康涅狄格州纽黑文等城市以及法律团体 Centro Legal de la Raza 曾请求加入案件以维护该规定。在一名法官拒绝允许他们介入后，他们向最高法院提交了紧急上诉。
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.
由 Democracy Forward 组织代理的他们辩称，得克萨斯州和特朗普政府合谋让该规定在法庭上被永久叫停，绕过了公开的规则制定程序。
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.
司法部曾敦促大法官驳回上诉，称这些城市无法律资格挑战该和解，且未能证明将遭受即时法律损害。
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.