得克萨斯州的一名联邦法官周五裁定，“推迟儿童入境行动”(简称“DACA行动”)项目是非法的，这是对奥巴马时代保护非法入境年轻人免受驱逐的做法的重大打击。
美国地方法院法官安德鲁·哈恩站在以得克萨斯州为首的九个州的一边，并得出结论认为，DACA计划的建立违反了联邦行政法。哈恩在他的决定中强调，他的裁决并不强制移居当局有权逮捕和驱逐接受者，但这确实使他们有资格。
DACA是由前总统创建的巴拉克·奥巴马2012年，为不断增长的无证未成年移民人口提供救济，这些人有时被称为梦想家，由于年轻，他们在移民过程中几乎没有发言权。据估计，大约有65万人拥有DACA身份，根据美国公民和移民服务局。
德克萨斯州总检察长办公室的律师认为，奥巴马政府在创建该项目时过度扩展了其行政权力。阿拉巴马州、阿肯色州、堪萨斯州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州、内布拉斯加州、南卡罗来纳州和西弗吉尼亚州也加入了诉讼。
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代表一群DACA受助者为该项目辩护的墨西哥裔美国人法律辩护和教育基金在此前的听证会上辩称，得克萨斯州的诉讼不应该成功，因为DACA的存在没有伤害到任何一个州。
尽管共和党领导的各州已经采取行动结束DACA计划，但该计划仍保持了两党的政治支持。75%的共和党人和92%的民主党人都支持让接受者有机会获得公民身份，根据2018年盖洛普的一项调查。
墨西哥裔美国人法律辩护和教育基金主席兼总法律顾问托马斯·萨恩斯说，DACA是总统行使自由裁量权的唯一途径。
萨恩斯说:“当你处理移民系统必须处理的人数时，你必须做出资源决定。“很难想象一种有效的方式来做这件事。”
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拜登政府可能会采取行动改变该计划，以满足哈恩的裁决，但尽管如此，许多DACA获奖者的未来可能会再次面对最高法院。
这一裁决也加大了对拜登的压力，要求他可能通过和解进程为DACA的接受者赢得立法胜利。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)在一份声明中表示:“今天的错误裁决公然藐视法律和先例，因为它给梦想家们蒙上了一层恐惧和不确定的阴影，他们是我们国家的骄傲。“在我们等待法律明确要求的迅速停留之际，民主党人将继续推动任何和所有途径，以确保现在众议院两次通过的《梦想与承诺法案》成为美国的法律。”
作为对这一消息的回应，国会西班牙裔核心小组在一份自录音再现装置发出的高音，称“国会通过对梦想家的永久保护并提供获得公民身份的途径比以往任何时候都更重要。”
Judge rules Obama-era DACA immigration program illegal
A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program was unlawful in a significant blow to the Obama-era approach that shielded young people brought to the country illegally from deportation.
U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen sided with a group of nine states led by Texas and concluded that the creation of the DACA program violated federal administrative law. Hanen emphasized in his decision that his ruling does not compelimmigrationauthorities to arrest and deport recipients, but it does make them eligible.
DACA was created by former PresidentBarack Obamain 2012 to provide relief for the growing population of undocumented immigrant minors, sometimes called Dreamers, who had little to no say in their immigration process due to their youth. It's estimated there are about 650,000 people who hold DACA status,according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Lawyers with the Texas Attorney General's Office argued that the Obama administration overextended its executive authority in creating the program. They were joined in the lawsuit by Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which represented a group of DACA recipients in defending the program, argued in a prior hearing on the matter that Texas shouldn't be successful in its lawsuit because none of the states were harmed by the existence of DACA.
The DACA program has maintained bipartisan political support even as Republican-led states have moved to end it. A solid majority -- 75% -- of Republicans favor allowing recipients the chance to obtain citizenship along with 92% of Democrats,according to a 2018 Gallup survey.
Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said DACA is the only way the president can exercise discretion.
"When you're dealing with the number of people that the immigration system has to deal with, you have to make resource decisions," Saenz said. "It's hard to imagine an efficient way of doing it otherwise."
The Biden administration could act to change the program in a way that would satisfy Hanen’s ruling, but still, the future for many DACA recipients will likely face the Supreme Court once again.
The ruling also ramps up pressure on Biden to achieve a legislative victory for DACA recipients, possibly through the reconciliation process.
"Today’s wrongly-decided ruling brazenly flouts the law and precedent, as it casts a cloud of fear and uncertainty around the Dreamers, who are a pride of our nation," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. "As we await the swift stay that the law clearly requires, Democrats will continue to press for any and all paths to ensure that the Dream and Promise Act, now passed twice by the House, becomes the law of the land."
In response to the news, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in atweet, said it was "more important than ever for Congress to pass permanent protections for Dreamers and provide a pathway to citizenship."
