The court found that undocumented children are costing the state of Texas over $10,000 each per school year.
A Trump-appointed judge has struck down the Biden administration’s new green-card program for illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens.
The Keep Families Together [KFT] program also applied to the stepchildren of U.S. citizens. Announcing the program in June, the Biden administration said that it would benefit about 500,000 undocumented immigrants.
The Keep Families Together program has been halted since Aug. 26 after Texas and 15 other Republican-led states brought their challenge before Campbell’s court.
J. Campbell Barker, East Texas federal judge, sided with Texas and 15 other states in finding the program a violation of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Newsweek sought email comment from the Department of Homeland Security and the White House on Friday.
Campbell, who was nominated to the federal bench by President Trump in January 2017, wrote that Texas had shown that each illegal stepchild of a U.
