Lame-duck President Joe Biden vowed to keep “fighting” for illegal aliens after a federal judge blocked his sweeping amnesty plan.
The program is called “Keeping Families Together.”
It would have granted deportation protection, work permits, green cards, and a path to citizenship to half a million illegal aliens who are married to U.S. citizens.
Biden announced the program in June, on the 12th anniversary of President Obama’s unlawful DACA program.
Like DACA, Biden’s amnesty program bypasses Congress to shield illegal aliens from deportation and offer them voting rights.
The program was challenged by 16 Republican states who said it would encourage more illegal immigration, to their detriment.
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hailed the temporary block from Judge J. Campbell Barker as a victory for the rule of law.
“This is just the first step,” Paxton said.
“We are going to keep fighting for Texas, our country, and the rule of law.”
Former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, of America First Legal, led the Republicans’ challenge.
Miller said the actual number of migrants who stand to benefit from the program is closer to 1 million.
In his defiant response to the court’s ruling, Biden fretted that deporting illegal aliens married to Americans would cause “needless” suffering.
“That ruling is wrong,” Biden said.
“These families should not be needlessly separated.
“They should be able to stay together, and my Administration will not stop fighting for them.”
Biden’s pledge to “fight” for illegal aliens contradicts his party’s recent adoption of tough-on-the-border rhetoric ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presidential candidate, is attempting to coopt President Donald Trump’s signature policy of building a border wall.
It comes after roughly 10 million future Democrat voters illegally crossed the border under Biden and Harris.
In his response to the court’s ruling, Biden – who blocked Trump’s wall on the first day of the Biden-Harris presidency – pledged to “fight to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system.”
Still, Biden lamented that illegal immigrants would be living “in fear” after the court’s ruling.
“They’ll be forced to either leave their families in America or live in the shadows in constant fear of deportation,” he said.
Biden’s angry reaction to this commonsense court ruling shows where his party’s priorities actually are, despite their recent “border security” messaging.
For Biden, these migrants are future Democrat voters and it grieves him to see their “path to citizenship” disrupted.
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