A Federal Judge Has Blocked New DACA Applicants From Deportation Protections
A federal judge in Texas on Friday ordered the Biden administration to halt a program that shields undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation.
District Judge Andrew Hanen's split order doesn't affect current recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but stops the Department of Homeland Security from approving any new applications. The decision comes amid a government backlog of thousands of first-time DACA applicants who were waiting to be approved.
The Supreme Court ruled against the former president Donald Trump's attempts to rescind DACA last year, saying the government had violated federal law when it rescinded the program. Then in December, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to begin accepting new applications for DACA, fully restoring the Obama-era program. The program not only protected undocumented immigrants from deportation, but also gave them permission to work.
Unlike the case the Supreme Court ruled on, which focused on how the Trump administration went about ending DACA, the lawsuit before Hanen focused on the original terms the program was created under. In the lawsuit, Texas and eight other states argued that DACA was illegally created by former president Barack Obama.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/judge-blocks-new-daca-applicants
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Texass. Might have known it. What are the chances he's a TFG-McTurtle ram-through, or a Shrub appointee?
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