News of the World

[kyonides]

U.S. judge blocks new applicants to program that protects
undocumented ‘dreamers’ who arrived as children

A federal judge in Texas has largely halted an Obama administration initiative that grants work permits and reprieves from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children — calling the program “unlawful” even as he allowed the more than 600,000 young people already in it to keep their protected status.

U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen sided with Texas and other states in his ruling that President Barack Obama overstepped his executive authority when he created the program.

Hanen’s ruling called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an “illegally implemented program” and said “the public interest of the nation is always served by the cessation of a program that was created in violation of law.”

He prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from approving new applications, issued a permanent injunction vacating the memo that created DACA in 2012 — when President Biden was vice president — and remanded the issue to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for reconsideration.

Central Europe Flooded!?

Germany, Netherlands and Belgium are affected by the floods, over 100 people have lost their lives. People went missing after a landslide partially erased some zones of Erftstadt-Blessem near Cologne. A campsite in Roermond, Netherlands is submerged by floods. Also a dike collapsed near Maastricht flooding farmlands and threatening nearby towns.