The federal government will appeal a judge’s decision Friday to halt all new applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Joe Biden said Saturday morning, as the nine-year-old initiative offering protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children face legal peril and an uncertain political fate.
Houston-based federal court Judge Andrew Hanen ruled DACA is illegal and barred the Department of Homeland Security from approving any new applications, but Hanen put much of his ruling on hold pending appeals, meaning current DACA recipients won’t lose their protections yet.
In a statement promising an appeal, Biden called the ruling “deeply disappointing,” warning it “relegates hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to an uncertain future.”
After the Biden administration appeals Hanen’s ruling, it will head to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a fairly conservative reputation, including on immigration.
Get the US Marshals to round them all up and deport them!