This is big news that kinda flew under the radar yesterday amid the whole (non-existent) 28th Amendment kerfuffle, but on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration -- and his vow to begin mass deportations ASAP -- this can only make the incoming administration happy:
🚨 NEW: Federal court rules DACA is illegal on eve of Trump administration - ABC
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 18, 2025
Here's more from Just the News:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld most of a lower court's ruling that former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unconstitutional, throwing the future of the program in jeopardy.
U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in September of 2023 ruled that the Biden administration could not codify the program as a memorandum and that efforts to do so violated immigration law, according to The Hill.
The Appeals court decision only upheld Hanen's ruling for the state of Texas, thereby suspending the program in the Lone Star state, and said the judge was incorrect in halting the program nationwide, per CNN.
As the article points out, this only applies to Texas. For now.
Texas AG Ken Paxton took a victory lap on X:
VICTORY: Today, we secured a major victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed a district court’s ruling that the Biden Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) policy is unlawful.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) January 18, 2025
This is a win for Texas. I am pleased the… https://t.co/QFj1GFcMmU
The entire post reads:
This is a win for Texas. I am pleased the Fifth Circuit found that the Biden Administration’s DACA policy was unlawful. I look forward to working with President-elect Donald Trump to ensure that the rule of law is restored, and the illegal immigration crisis is finally stopped. Biden’s policies unleashed historic levels of lawlessness upon this country, and it is time to start fixing the mess the outgoing administration made.
And it's a big mess.
No American child of a lawbreaking parent gets to benefit from their lawbreaking
— Donna Davis (@DonnaDavisHNL) January 18, 2025
An excellent point. In the same vein, no Democrat laments 'separating families' when they lock up American parents for their crimes.
Which makes their objections to deporting illegals on the basis of 'keeping families together' all performative.
Quite the fortuitous ruling for the incoming Trump administration
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) January 18, 2025
Yes it is.
excellent.
— GettingTrumpNow.com (@gettingtrumpnow) January 18, 2025
Just imagine if the Soros stooge in the assembly there succeeded in impeaching Paxton.
None of this would happen, and the election cheating there would have been worse, perhaps even losing Cruz's senate seat.
Viglilance is needed now.
We're glad that effort failed.
Remember that time Pres Trump offered "Dreamers" a path to citizenship, but the Dems torpedoed it because they couldn't allow him to have any successes, at all?
— J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of Stuff (@Chandlej) January 18, 2025
We remember.
Amen. There is no question at all that DACA was unlawful. President Obama admitted it himself. https://t.co/AsSVwg8HZ6
— Immigration Accountability Project (@I_A_Project) January 18, 2025
Took almost 13 years for this ruling to start undoing DACA.
This is why we fought to keep our AG! This is why Democrats and RINOs in our state hate him!
— Pam Carroll (@PCarroll2024) January 18, 2025
Thank you @KenPaxtonTX https://t.co/TjV3kSqRRT
Paxton is great. And much needed in the AG seat.
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