Texas is leading a legal battle that leaves undocumented immigrants more vulnerable to...
The decision leaves undocumented immigrants more vulnerable to deportation, especially those living in cities such as Houston that fully cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to immigration experts.“The impact on our community is huge,” said Zenobia Lai, immigration attorney and director at the Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative. Roughly half a million undocumented immigrants live in the Houston area.
When President Joe Biden took office, he created very specific priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which signaled to undocumented people in the U.S. that if they follow the law and are already established in the country, they are not a priority for deportation. This particular legal battle is one of many the Biden administration has been facing as Texas and other conservative states have brought lawsuits aimed at blocking Biden’s immigration agenda.
Chishti said this has been an “unprecedented” amount of immigration-related legal interference, though he acknowledged that the Democrats also frequently intervened with the Trump administration’s immigration policies, “though not to the same level of detail.”
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