President Joe Biden vowed to keep fighting on Tuesday after an executive order granting amnesty to most illegal immigrants in the country was temporarily frozen by a federal court.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Monday night halted a program created by the Biden-Harris administration to provide deportation protections, a path to citizenship and other benefits to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who are married to U.S. citizens. The ruling prompted Biden, who announced the creation of the program earlier this year, to statement He vowed to continue fighting to “fix our broken immigration system.” (Related article: NYPD's top chief says city's sanctuary policy should end after immigrant allegedly rapes woman at knifepoint)
“Last night, a district court in Texas ruled that our efforts to keep families apart must stop,” Biden said in a White House statement. “This ruling is wrong. These families should not be needlessly separated.”
“They deserve to be able to stay together, and my administration will not stop fighting for them,” Biden continued. “I will keep fighting to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system.”
LUKESVILLE, ARIZONA – DECEMBER 7, 2023: Migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border line up at a remote US Border Patrol processing center in Lukeville, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The ruling came after America First Legal, a conservative group founded by former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller, led a coalition of 16 Republican-leaning states in a lawsuit arguing that the order was unconstitutional.
According to court documents, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker issued a 14-day administrative stay, temporarily blocking the program from continuing.
President Biden announced the order in June at a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Deportation for Young Americans, the last large-scale amnesty program launched by the federal government. The Keeping Families Together program allows spouses of undocumented immigrants who are U.S. citizens to apply for lawful permanent residence without having to leave the country, according to a Congressional fact sheet. Plan The White House announced this.
Under the plan, those accepted into the program would be given legal permanent residence and work permits, as well as a path to citizenship.
The move utilizes a federal power known as “parole,” which, according to a White House fact sheet, allows roughly 500,000 Illegal immigration. However, America First Legal More 1 million illegal immigrants.
“All I've done is made it possible for these long-term residents to file their paperwork with their families,” Biden argued in a statement on Tuesday. “But without a process to keep families together, spouses of U.S. citizens will be unable to stay in the United States until they receive the long-term legal status to which they are already entitled.”
“They will be forced to either leave their families behind in the United States or live in hiding, in constant fear of deportation,” the president continued.
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