A Texas federal judge on Thursday ruled for a second time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can’t end a Trump administration program that forced...
, but U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo ruled the policy must go back into effect while Texas and Missouri play out their legal challenge to keep it in place.formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols,
“The October 29 memoranda fail to consider MPP’s deterrent effect on illegal border crossings and the reduction of unmeritorious claims,” the judge wrote in Thursday’s 35-page order.including a June 30 decision where the court granted Biden permission to scrap the program. Kacsmaryk then permitted the states to amend their complaint to include questions highlighted by the Supreme Court, including whether the DHS decision was arbitrary or capricious.
The decision on Thursday by Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, is the latest in a whiplash-inducing string of rulings over the program, which Biden had pledged to shut down when he was campaigning to be president.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the ruling in a post on Twitter. “Tonight Texas & USA WINS ... Biden’s open-border agenda won’t survive my legal attacks,” Paxton said in his tweet.
The order in December forced the administration to renegotiate immigration terms with Mexico early this year. The U.S. Supreme Court initially refused Biden’s emergency plea to intervene, so DHS resumed the program.
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