HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary injunction sought by Texas, which argued the moratorium violated federal law and risked imposing additional costs on the state.
Biden proposed the 100-day pause on deportations during his campaign as part of a larger review of immigration enforcement and an attempt to reverse the priorities of former President Donald Trump. Biden has proposed a sweeping immigration bill that would allow the legalization of an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally. He has also instituted other guidelines on whom immigration and border agents should target for enforcement.
Tipton, a Trump appointee, initially ruled on Jan. 26 that the moratorium violated federal law on administrative procedure and that the U.S. failed to show why a deportation pause was justified. A temporary restraining order the judge issued was set to expire Tuesday.
Tipton’s ruling did not require deportations to resume at their previous pace. Even without a moratorium, immigration agencies have wide latitude in enforcing removals and processing cases.
But in the days that followed his ruling, authorities deported 15 people to Jamaica and hundreds of others to Central America. The Biden administration has also continued expelling immigrants under a separate process begun by Trump officials, who invoked public-health law due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The legal fight over the deportation ban is an early sign of Republican opposition to Biden’s immigration priorities, just as Democrats and pro-immigrant legal groups fought Trump’s proposals. Almost four years before Tipton’s order, Trump signed a ban on travel from seven countries with predominantly Muslim populations that caused chaos at airports. Legal groups successfully sued to stop implementation of the ban.
It was not immediately clear if the Biden administration will appeal Tipton’s latest ruling. The Justice Department did not seek a stay of Tipton’s earlier temporary restraining order.
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A Judge with some brains, U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton thank you
AND some spine, to stand up to the left.. PRAISES to him!
Thank God for U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton. We need a judge like this on SCOTUS. Judge Tipton would make a good replacement for John Roberts, the snake.
About time someone from the opposing team is standing up against Biden.
Now le’s get the Senate and House make immigration laws and not Biden.
With how they are controlled BY THE LEFT, what makes you think if they DID correct the laws, they wouldn’t just IMPLEMENT WHAT biden wants??
Forget waiting on the Senate and the House when the Supreme Court is supposed to be trusted with carrying out and enforcing the laws already on the books as written and stopping executive orders that go against what Congress duly elected by THE PEOPLE has already ruled upon and created. Illegal means ILLEGAL and if the Court officicfals don’t act to protect this nation in times of Pandemic crisis, and bankrupting illegal immigration that overwhelms our enforcement agencies and entitlements that were designed for LEGAL Americans then we will never again have a nation , and the the Supreme Court has just become the nation of Supreme Court Jesters acting like King Biden’s clown fools.
Perhaps they are OK with being just his jesters..
With the delusional Democrats now having full control of both the Executive and Legislative Branches of the U.S. government, the only place the states can turn to prevent the Democrats from implementing their destructive policies is to the federal courts. Thankfully U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, has the wisdom and courage to prevent the Biden administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on deportations and allowing dangerous illegal aliens to remain in the country. We could use a few more judges like Drew Tipton on the Supreme Court.