Biden promises to appeal immigration ruling, urges Congress to act

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the Justice Department will appeal a "deeply disappointing" ruling by a federal judge in Texas on a program that protects from deportation certain immigrants brought to the United States as children, while also urging Congress to take action.

The White House issued Biden's statement a day after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sided with a group of states led by Texas suing to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Hanen ruled that Democratic former President Barack Obama acted unlawfully when he created the program in 2012 by executive action.

The hundreds of thousands of people protected under DACA are often called "Dreamers."

Biden said the ruling "relegates hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to an uncertain future." Biden said the Justice Department intends to appeal the ruling "in order to preserve and fortify" DACA, adding that the Department of Homeland Security also plans to act in the near future.



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1. Of course it had to be Texas. We should just give it

all back to Mexico.

[Marthe48]

2. I feel despair

I am white with a Europeanancestry. I don't understand why I care so deeply about the plight of immigrants, migrants and refugees, but I also don't understand why people just like me are so hateful and selfish.

I imagine that the people in Central and South America migrated freely back and forth across the North and South American continents before white Europeans disrupted and destroyed their cultures. We are living in a time when reparations are at least being considered for minorities wronged by white colonization and enslavement and land grabs. The least we could do is examine pre-Columbian pathways archeaologists might have uncovered, and lands possibly settled by early migrants and let people native to Central and South America renew their cultural heritage. At the least, our government owes something to people from the countries where we interfered with their governments, which has led to drug and gang violence, which has led to more refugees fleeing their countries.

America's population is dwindling from lower birth rates, and probably Covid-19. The country is also becoming more and more urban, leaving developed farmland idle. How many lives could be changed if we stopped being so dog-in-the-manger?

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3. I don't know whether the judge's ruling was political or racist

(as, for example, were Roberts decision against the VRA, and Alito’s in favor of the Arizona voter suppression law). Judge Hanen may have been dispassionately following what the law dictates -- or seems, to him, to dictate.

But his decision comes at a time in our history when the forces of ignorance and hatred, though beaten back by the popular vote, continue to eat relentlessly at our freedom and our self-respect as a nation. He has added another heavy rock to the millstone Loser-45 and his fascist pigs have already hung around America’s neck.

A sad day.