Federal Judge extends injunction against Biden's deportation freeze



A federal judge in Texas has extended his previous order temporarily preventing the Biden administration from beginning its 100-day pause on deportations of illegal immigrants.

Fox News reported that U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton in the Southern District of Texas lengthened his suspension of the White House's deportation freeze for another 14 days to give the Biden administration and the state of Texas more time to "provide for a more fulsome record" to assist the court in "adjudicating Texas's motion for a Preliminary Injunction."

Additionally, the judge warned of "the irreparable harm that would accrue to Texas if an extension" was not granted. Though he did acknowledge the Biden administration's argument that "the 100-day pause on removals is necessary to allow" them to take account of "important immigration, foreign policy, and humanitarian considerations."

"The Court may ultimately be persuaded by the Defendants' arguments, but any harm they might incur between now and then does not outweigh the potential for irreparable harm to Texas," Tipton wrote.

As one of his first acts in office, President Joe Biden ordered Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to cease deporting some illegal immigrants for a period of 100 days. Biden's order instructed these agencies within the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a "review and reset" of the former President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies, allowing time for the Biden executive branch to begin reversing those policies.

Immediately after Biden signed his executive order, Texas took legal action to sue the Biden administration, seeking a court injunction to block Biden's deportation moratorium. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed Biden's executive order "violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law, and a contractual agreement between Texas" and the Department of Homeland Security.

In response to Texas' lawsuit, Judge Tipton issued a nationwide injunction forcing Biden to continue deportations until the case is resolved.

On Jan. 22, Fox News reported an internal email sent to ICE officers in Texas that gives insight into how Biden's executive order was enforced. The internal email instructed ICE to "stop all removals" and went on to say, "Release them all, immediately. No sponsor available is not acceptable any longer."

Biden's executive order paused deportations and ordered the release of all illegal immigrants detained by immigration enforcement authorities for minor offenses. Non-citizens who were suspected to have engaged in terrorism or espionage were exempt from the order and could still be deported.

Portland rioters violently demand end to deportations one day after Biden temporarily halted deportations



Rioters in Portland, Oregon, once again targeted a federal immigration enforcement facility Saturday night, demanding an end to deportations of individuals illegally residing in the United States. They apparently took no pleasure in the fact that only a day before, President Joe Biden had announced a 100-day pause on the practice.

What happened?

The group of rioters descended on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the riot-ravaged Pacific Northwest city late Saturday night, forcefully calling for the wholesale abolishment of borders and any legal action against illegal aliens, Fox News reported.

"No borders! No nations! Abolish deportations!" the protesters chanted at one point, according to video of the scene posted on social media.

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The crowd was classified as an "unlawful assembly" and ordered to leave the premises by law enforcement officers from the Federal Protective Service, a subset of the Department of Homeland Security.

"If you trespass on federal property with a weapon ... you will be arrested," officers reportedly announced in a pre-recorded message over a loudspeaker.

Federal agents eventually discharged a fogger and other crowd control methods in order to disperse the crowd.

But Biden halted deportations

The protests over the weekend were just the latest in a string of recent uprisings starting last Wednesday, the day of Biden's inauguration.

During his first full day in office, the newly elected Democratic president issued a number of executive orders, one of which enacted sweeping changes to immigration enforcement policy, including "a 100-day pause on deportations for some undocumented immigrants."

The move was met with swift denunciation from conservatives and the threat of a lawsuit by the state of Texas.

But the deportation pause is not the only immigration reform Biden plans to enact. He has also promised to provide a speedy pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants currently residing in the country illegally.

It's not enough

But the changes are evidently neither broad nor forceful enough for some of the country's more radical leftists.

Rioters in Portland told CNN over the weekend that their anger is fueled by an assumption that Biden will ultimately refuse their most urgent demands such as to abolish ICE and defund the police.

One rioter told the outlet "there is a lot of anger and rage" over social inequity among Americans, and that vandalism is how some choose to express their anger.

Another said: "It doesn't matter who's president: Black lives don't matter ... they don't care about us. They just don't."

Last week, Antifa rioters in Portland attacked police and vandalized the city's Democratic Party headquarters, spray painting "F*** BIDEN" on the building.

Some of the protesters carried a sign that read: 'We don't want Biden, we want revenge!'

Texas threatens to sue Biden administration for 'illegal' deportation pause



The state of Texas is planning to sue the Biden administration after President Joe Biden signed an executive order halting deportations of illegal immigrants for a period of 100 days.

"President Biden is trying to halt deportations of illegal aliens who already have a final order of removal from the U.S.," Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tweeted Friday. "This abandons the obligation to enforce federal immigration laws. Texas is fighting this attempt to grant blanket amnesty."

Abbott shared a letter from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton addressed to acting Secretary of Homeland Security David Pekoske announcing that the state will sue the Biden administration for its "illegal deportation freeze." The Department of Homeland Security, acting on Biden's orders, on Wednesday paused removals for some non-citizens ordered deported as the agency conducts a "review and reset" of its immigration enforcement policies.

"The pause will allow DHS to ensure that its resources are dedicated to responding to the most pressing challenges that the United States faces, including immediate operational challenges at the southwest border in the midst of the most serious global public health crisis in a century," the agency said in a statement.

Biden's deportation pause is the fulfillment of a campaign promise to radically reverse former President Donald Trump's immigration policies. On his first day in office, President Biden called on Congress to take up legislation granting amnesty with a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants.

Until Congress is able to consider legislation, Biden has vowed to take executive action. Including the deportation pause, Biden took 17 executive actions on his first day in office fulfilling various campaign promises to reverse Trump's policies on climate change, immigration, COVID-19 response management, and more.

The DHS memoranda announcing the new deportation policy lists some individuals who will not be protected from deportation, including those who are suspected of terrorism or espionage, anyone not physically present in the United States before Nov. 1, 2020, and for individual cases where the acting director of ICE and the general counsel make an individual determination that a non-citizen should be removed.

Paxton's letter characterizes this "blanket halt on nearly all deportations of illegal aliens" as a "complete abdication of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) obligation to enforce federal immigration law."

He argues that allowing the executive order to go unchallenged could "allow the Biden Administration to grant blanket amnesty to the vast majority of the illegal aliens in this country with the stroke of a pen and without congressional approval."

"Border states like Texas pay a particularly high price when the federal government fails to faithfully execute our country's immigration laws," Paxton wrote. "Your attempted halt on almost all deportations would increase the cost to Texas caused by illegal immigration."

Paxton demanded that the federal government rescind the order halting deportations or else the state would sue in court for relief.