
A federal charge permanently blocked Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation pause of illegal aliens following a legal challenge by Texas.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of President Donald Trump in the Southern District of Texas, issued a preliminary injunction late Tuesday halting Biden’s freeze of deportations.
Tipton had previously issued a two-week restraining order on Biden’s policy after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had argued that it violated federal law.

Tipton found that Texas had proved Biden’s 100-day deportation pause would financially harm the state — and that the DHS moratorium announcing the pause violated laws and procedures.
“[T]he core failure of DHS lies not in the brevity of the January 20 Memorandum or the corresponding administrative record, but instead in its omission of a rational explanation grounded in the facts reviewed and the factors considered,” Tipton wrote in his decision.
“This failure is fatal, as this defect essentially makes DHS’s determination to institute a 100-day pause on deportations an arbitrary and capricious choice.”
“Texas has thus far satisfactorily demonstrated it is entitled to immediate and temporary relief from the January 20 Memorandum’s 100-day pause on removals,” he added.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security had released a memorandum a few days after Biden captured the White House announcing the 100-day deportation pause while his administration reviews current DHS policies.
Notably, immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken claims his sources inside the DHS told him that Biden is flouting Tipton’s order and refuses to enforce the law.
“According to my sources inside ICE the Biden admin is ignoring the District Judge’s order and is not enforcing the immigration law from the interior of the United States with the exception of individuals who have been convicted of a crime that constitutes an aggravated felony,” Kolken wrote on Twitter.
Read the judge’s ruling:
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