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NPR reports:
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for a green card without first having to leave the country.
The temporary relief from deportation brought a brief sense of security to some 500,000 immigrants estimated to benefit from the program before Texas-based U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker put it on hold in August. During his first term, Trump appointed Barker as a judge in Tyler, Texas, which lies in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a favored venue for advocates pushing conservative arguments.
Axios reports:
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey [photo] said in a post on X that the ruling was a “HUGE win for the rule of law.” Missouri was one of the states that sued. Ashley DeAzevedo, president of American Families United, said Barker “shattered the hopes of hundreds of thousands of American families.” She added that the people who would have benefited from the program have “contributed to our communities, helped grow our economy, and built lives with their loved ones.”
Expect more of this before Trump takes office.
🚨BREAKING: The Court just granted our request to throw out the Biden-Harris Administration’s illegal parole-in-place program allowing illegal aliens to remain in our country after they have crossed the border.
A HUGE win for the rule of law.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) November 7, 2024