On Friday, Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas issued a decision which will block the Department of Homeland Security from approving new DACA applications. This from townhall.com.
Just in: A federal judge in Texas has blocked the DACA program going forward — it won't affect current recipients for now (judge is putting that issue on hold, pending expected appeals), but it blocks DHS from approving new applications https://t.co/urJh8jnJDd pic.twitter.com/LqvSDWx2ao
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 16, 2021
Judge Hanen called the program an “illegally implemented program” and said “the public interest of the nation is always served by the cessation of a program that was created in violation of law and whose existence violates the law.”
We will still have to wait a bit longer until the fate of the DACA program recipients are decided for good though, with Judge Hanen citing “reliance” which “may, in fact, have increased over time.”
The order as it would apply to current recipients is “stayed until a further order of this Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, or the United States Supreme Court.”
This case is a suit brought by Texas and several other states.
“Illegally exceeded his executive authority,” has a nice ring to it. We could hear that to describe Obama repeatedly for years and still not see undone his damage in total.