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Texas Judge to Extend Curbs on Joe Biden’s No-Deportation Policy

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NEIL MUNRO

29 Jan 2021617

2:47

President Joe Biden’s plan to block deportations of illegal aliens living in the United States will likely be tied up for another month, according to media reports.

CNN reported January 29:

A federal judge in Texas said Friday that he’ll likely extend his hold on the Biden administration’s deportation moratorium until February 23.

Earlier this week, Judge Drew Tipton of the Southern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, blocked the administration’s 100-day pause on deportations, delivering a blow to one of President Joe Biden’s first immigration actions. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, had sued, leading to the first legal block of one of Biden’s executive actions.

Tipton initially blocked the administration from executing its deportation pause for 14 days. The temporary restraining order, Tipton argued, was appropriate under the Administrative Procedure Act.

U.S. border agencies are still deporting migrants back to Central America, according to a group that tracks deportation flights. But the aircraft are likely carrying recent arrivals at the border, and those new migrants are not included in Biden’s no-deportation policy. Advocates also claim that some migrants are being deported from interior states.

During President Donald Trump’s tenure, pro-migration groups persuaded many judges to block Trump regulations — including his cancellation of the DACA amnesty — on the grounds that they did not precisely follow the bureaucratic procedures required by the Administrative Procedure Act. Pro-migration advocates are displeased at the sudden reversal.

On 26 January, Breitbart News reported that Paxton had filed a lawsuit against the administration:

Hours after taking office on January 20, Biden signed an executive order that halts deportations of most illegal aliens for at least 100 days. The order came as illegal immigration has spiked in recent months and a migrant caravan heads to the United States-Mexico border in the hopes of taking advantage of the Biden administration’s lax enforcement policies.

Last week, Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, asking a federal judge to block the order noting the negative impact it would have on the state of Texas and its social services.

The court decision, however, constraints only part of Biden’s deportation freeze. For example, the judge’s decisions do not curb Biden’s directives to sharply reduce the arrests and detention of illegal migrants.

Joe Biden is expected to sign Executive Orders on Tuesday to reopen the flow of cheap workers & gov't-aided consumers into the U.S.
That's good for biz & Wall St., bad for U.S. employees & families.
But the estb. media will focus on 'separated families.'https://t.co/ieCIvleg3q

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 29, 2021

House Democrats Urge Joe Biden to Give Obamacare to DACA Recipients

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KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ

30 Jan 2021121

2:29

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and 93 other House Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to give Obamacare benefits to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) recipients.

Castro and the 93 other House Democrats signed a letter Tuesday pressing for the change as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, claiming it would benefit not only those in the DACA program, but also the general public, NBC News reported.

The letter was addressed to Biden and Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Norris Cochran.

Castro said in the letter:

Access to Covid-19 testing and treatment for DACA recipients and their U.S. citizen children is absolutely critical during this pandemic, particularly for the 202,500 DACA recipients employed as essential workers on the front lines to keep our country healthy and running.

Under current rules, DACA recipients cannot enroll in Obamacare because they are not considered “lawfully present.” Castro argued that DACA recipients are treated as “lawfully present” for other federal benefits and urged the Biden administration to revoke the rule.

Whether House members plan to enact legislation to this effect or just want Biden to introduce an executive order on the subject is unclear.

Some Republicans say the effort will not pass Congress if Democrats try to introduce it as legislation.

“He’s doubling down on putting American taxpayers last by giving free health care to DACA recipients, when he should be solely focused on the most urgent health issue of our time: getting every American vaccinated,” Lauren Fine, a spokeswoman for Republican House Whip Steve Scalise told Fox News Friday.

“An expansion of ObamaCare to DACA recipients won’t pass Congress and is wasting time he should be spending on leading us out of the Coronavirus crisis and reopening our economy,” Fine added.

If Castro’s push is successful, the move would be another expansion of benefits the Biden administration would be providing to illegal aliens.

The DACA program, which was started in 2012 during the Obama administration, allowed illegal aliens who came to the country as young children to work or go to school while they legally remained in the country.

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly tried to end DACA, but the Supreme Court rebuffed his efforts.