This is great news even though it’s only temporary. It’s a matter not just of ideology but law and sovereignty and more. A judge today ordered the Biden administration to STOP putting new children into the DACA program. The ruling was clear that Obama’s program sheltering illegal aliens brought into the U.S. as children is NOT lawful.
Well duh.
#BREAKING: A federal judge on Friday ordered the Biden administration to stop all applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, after a coalition of states sued and claimed that the Obama-era program was illegal. — FOX
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Here is the scoop, from USA Today:
A federal judge in Houston on Friday ruled that an Obama administration program protecting undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children is illegal and halted accepting any new applications for the program.
The decision comes out of a challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that was filed in 2018 by Texas and other states that argued that the program violated the Constitution because it undermines Congress’ authority on immigration laws.
The decision Friday is separate from a previous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s attempt to end DACA in 2017 was unlawful. A federal judge in New York earlier this year then ordered the Trump administration to restore the program as enacted by President Barack Obama.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked the program from moving forward.
Reports say that as many as 800,000 illegal aliens have been protected under this unlawful Obama program. This ruling doesn’t affect them, but does prevent another 800,000. At least for now.
But even if it’s appealed or fought, or congress tries an end-run, the ruling that it’s an illegal, unconstitutional program as a matter of law is out there, and that’s a pretty big deal.