Texas AG Calls New Court Ruling ‘Massive Defeat’ for Biden DHS on Border – Opinion

Earlier on Friday evening, I shared the disheartening news on a Texas judge’s restraining order keeping Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s directive to his state’s Child and Family Services Department to investigate the health and welfare of any minors in the process of receiving hormone-altering drugs or having gender transition surgery from taking effect.

Well, there’s some positive legal news out of the Lone Star state, as well, As RedState readers know by now, the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security is–to put it delicately–selective about when it thinks agents should enforce immigration law on the border — and on Friday, a judge’s decision put that on hold.

NEW! NEW! @SecMayorkas’s DHS immigration enforcement priorities, delaying his decision by only 7 days. This decision almost eliminates DHS’s ability to prioritize certain immigrants in order to prevent their deportation.

Decision here: https://t.co/WGbprJr3ZS pic.twitter.com/3U0b3ZvSDx

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) June 10, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had something to say in the wake of the ruling, in part calling the Abbott administration’s win a “massive defeat” on the DHS’ shirking its role in “detain[ing] criminal illegals.”

His followers were told by him on Twitter:

BREAKING: Biden suffered another crushing defeat at the fed court. He tried to throw out immigration law, saying DHS didn’t have to detain criminal illegals. Now, the court says that he has to. I will never compromise with the Dems or the rule. https://t.co/EfHXWBidAB

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) June 10, 2022

Fox News Digital reported that more Republican legislators in the House and Senate sent yet another letter to DHS Office of Inspector General on Friday, asking for an investigation into Biden’s Border Crisis.

More than 100 Republicans in the two chambers had written to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari in January requesting “a comprehensive review of the decisions by the Biden Administration that have led to the worst border crisis in United States history.”

A spokerson for the DHS OIG confirmed to Fox News at that time that it had received the letter: “We take all requests from Congress seriously and review them to better inform our work, including ongoing and future work,” the spokesperson said.