US judge rules against Biden legalization program for immigrant spouses

WASHINGTON — 

A U.S. justice successful Texas connected Thursday ruled against President Joe Biden's programme offering a way to citizenship for definite migrant spouses of U.S. citizens, a stroke that could support the programme blocked done Biden's last months successful office.

U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker recovered the programme exceeded Biden's enforcement authority. The programme offers a way to citizenship to astir 500,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally if they are joined to U.S. citizens.

The initiative, known arsenic Keeping Families Together, launched successful August but was blocked days aboriginal by Barker, who near it frozen portion helium considered a ineligible situation brought by Texas and a conjugation of U.S. states with Republican attorneys general.

Biden, a Democrat, announced the programme successful June earlier dropping retired of the statesmanlike contention and paving the mode for Vice President Kamala Harris to look Republican Donald Trump, an migration hard-liner.

Trump defeated Harris successful Tuesday's predetermination and is expected to motorboat a wide-ranging migration crackdown that would apt see rolling backmost Biden's inaugural for migrant spouses, which the Trump run called a "mass amnesty" that would promote amerciable immigration.

Americans spot migration arsenic the astir pressing contented for Trump to code erstwhile helium takes bureau successful January, and a ample bulk judge helium volition bid wide deportations of radical surviving successful the U.S. illegally, a Reuters/Ipsos canvass that closed connected Thursday found.

The Biden medication could entreaty Thursday's tribunal ruling. The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.