Houston Chronicle by Taylor Goldenstein Jan. 22, 2021
Just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton promised to “fight against the many unconstitutional and illegal actions that the new administration will take,†he announced Friday he had filed a suit challenging Biden’s temporary pause on deportations for certain noncitizens.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the 100-day moratorium on Wednesday and it took effect Friday. It came after Biden revoked one of Trump’s earliest executive orders making anyone in the country illegally a priority for deportations.
Paxton alleges in the suit, filed in federal district court in Victoria, that Biden’s move violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law and a contractual agreement between Texas and the federal government.
The case is before U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump appointee who took the bench in Corpus Christi last June and previously practiced law in Houston. Tipton is set to discuss an emergency application by Paxton for a temporary restraining order against the deportation halt in a virtual hearing at 4 p.m. Friday.
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