Federal judge temporarily blocks Biden's 100-day deportation moratorium after Texas sues administrat

[Wingnut]

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on deportations of some undocumented immigrants.

Federal Judge Drew Tipton on Tuesday issued the order after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued President Joe Biden's administration late last week alleging the moratorium is unconstitutional and violates an agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and Texas.

“Within 6 days of Biden’s inauguration, Texas has HALTED his illegal deportation freeze,” Paxton tweeted after the order. “*This* was a seditious left-wing insurrection. And my team and I stopped it.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/26/texas-joe-biden-deportation-moratorium-ken-paxton/

[libertybele]

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on deportations of some undocumented immigrants.

Federal Judge Drew Tipton on Tuesday issued the order after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued President Joe Biden's administration late last week alleging the moratorium is unconstitutional and violates an agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and Texas.

“Within 6 days of Biden’s inauguration, Texas has HALTED his illegal deportation freeze,” Paxton tweeted after the order. “*This* was a seditious left-wing insurrection. And my team and I stopped it.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/26/texas-joe-biden-deportation-moratorium-ken-paxton/

Point score for a change!

[Elderberry]

Judge blocks Biden’s 100-day deportation freeze temporarily

American Military News by  Liz George  January 26, 2021

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/01/judge-blocks-bidens-100-day-deportation-freeze-temporarily/

Over the weekend and in response to the 100-day pause, an internal email obtained by Fox News revealed an ICE official instructed officers in Texas to “release them all, immediately,” referring to the detainees, in addition to ordering all removals to stop, including land and air deportations.

“As of midnight [Thursday], stop all removals,” the email read. “This includes Mexican bus runs, charter flights and commercial removals (until further notice) … all cases are to be considered [no significant likelihood of removal in foreseeable future].”

In the email, the ICE official made sure to note that he was just “the messenger” of the orders, communicating that it was not his idea; rather, it was President Biden’s.

At least 14,715 detainees are currently held in 138 ICE facilities nationwide, with criminal charges that include, but are not limited to, assault, child abuse, domestic violence, drug trafficking and rape.

[Elderberry]

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s lawsuit blocks President Biden's order on deportation

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton-s-lawsuit-blocks-President-15899688.php

Texas Rep. Chip Roy, an Austin Republican who was once Paxton’s top deputy, also applauded the ruling, calling the Biden administration policy “an illegal executive overreach that usurps the power of Congress to rewrite federal law.”

“President Biden’s assault on the legal process is a dereliction of his duty to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ and it puts the safety and security of Americans at risk in order to appease his far-left base,” Roy said. “I’m glad to see that the Texas Office of the Attorney General pushed back against this lawless approach to immigration policy.”

Tipton also sided with Texas in its argument that the policy could cause irreparable harm by costing the state in social services, uncompensated health care expenses and other state-provided benefits as well as education costs for immigrants who are in the country illegally. While a DOJ lawyer had argued that those damages were too vague, Tipton disagreed.

[verga]

Stop him in his tracks every chance you get.

[skeeter]

What a nice turn of events.

[Elderberry]

Joe Biden: Stop All Deportations! Federal Judge: Not So Fast.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 1/27/2021

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=47083

    Paxton argued the state would face financial harm if undocumented immigrants were released into the state because of costs associated with health care and education, and said the moratorium would also lure others to come to Texas. Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who took the bench last year, agreed.

    “Texas argues that ‘the categorical refusal to remove aliens ordered removable will encourage additional illegal immigration into Texas,’ thereby exacerbating its public service costs. Such injury is not, as a legal matter, purely speculative,” he wrote. “The Court finds that the foregoing establishes a substantial risk of imminent and irreparable harm to Texas.

Federal law makes clear that the overwhelming majority of illegal aliens are deportable. Suspending the law for vast classes of deportable illegal aliens (rather than by a federal judge adjudicating individual cases) is an abuse of power. The Biden Administration doesn’t get to ignore written law (or written agreements with state government) merely because they find it inconvenient for a future amnesty of illegal aliens to create more Democratic voters.