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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
STATE
Denton Record-Chronicle
Judge in immigration case had criticized U.S. policy
By Alicia A. Caldwell
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The fed-
eral judge assigned to rule in the
lawsuit over President Barack
Obama’s changes to immigra-
tion rules last year accused the
Obama administration of par-
ticipating in criminal conspira-
cies to smuggle children into the
country by reuniting them with
parents living here illegally.
In the case last year, U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Andrew Hanen sug-
gested that the Homeland Secu-
rity Department should be ar-
resting parents living in the U.S.
illegally who induce their chil-
dren to cross the border illegally
and often pay for the trip.
Instead, the government has
generally been temporarily re-
uniting such children with their
relatives inside the United States
pending deportation proceed-
ings, which take many years.
“DHS has simply chosen not
to enforce the United States’
border security laws,” the judge
wrote. He said the government’s
failures to enforce immigration
laws were “both dangerous and
unconscionable,” although he
separately noted, “This court
takes no position on the topic of
immigration reform, nor should
one read this opinion as a com-
mentary on that issue.”
Hanen was assigned through
an automated system to be the
judge who will preside over a
lawsuit filed by 20 states trying
to block Obama’s expansive ex-
ecutive actions to spare nearly 5
million people living in the U.S.
illegally from deportation and
refocus enforcement efforts on
“felons, not families.” Hanen is
one of only two judges in the
Brownsville division of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern
District of Texas, and he is as-
signed to half of all civil cases
filed there.
Last December, Hanen
wrote a 10-page order in an im-
migrant smuggling case in
which he expressed his frustra-
tion over four cases in a month
in which a child who arrived in
the U.S. illegally alone was re-
united with a parent also in the
country illegally.
“Instead of arresting [the
child’s mother] for instigating
the conspiracy to violate our
border security laws, the
[Homeland Security Depart-
ment] delivered the child to her
— thus successfully completing
the mission of the criminal con-
spiracy,” Hanen wrote.
The judge compared the
cases to the government seizing
weapons being smuggled across
the border and delivering them
to the criminals inside the Unit-
ed States who ordered them.
The order highlighted the
growing problem of unaccom-
panied child immigrants being
caught at the border in South
Texas. During the fiscal year that
ended in September, the govern-
ment apprehended more than
68,000 unaccompanied chil-
dren at the border.
Most of those young immi-
grants were from Honduras, El
Salvador or Guatemala. Under
federal law, those children can-
not be quickly deported and are
often reunited with a parent or
other relative already living in
the United States. The govern-
ment does not generally ask
about the immigration status of
parents or relatives.
Texas is leading a coalition of
states suing the government. It
argued in the lawsuit filed last
week that Obama’s decision
“tramples” key portions of the
Constitution. The states, includ-
ing Arizona, Alabama, Georgia,
Idaho, Indiana and the Caroli-
nas, aren’t seeking monetary
damages but want Hanen to
block the president’s actions.
It’s not unusual for plaintiffs
in sensitive civil cases to shop for
a court jurisdiction friendly to
their point of view, but the loca-
tion of the court generally must
have some connection to the
case. In this case just about any
court in Texas would suffice. Ha-
nen’s ruling last year — which
generated some publicity then
— likely swayed lawyers for Tex-
as to file the lawsuit in Browns-
ville, not far from the central
point of the summer’s crisis over
child immigrants in nearby Mc-
Allen.
“Texas is uniquely qualified
to challenge the president’s ex-
ecutive order, and South Texas is
at the epicenter of where border
security is of concern for Texas
and the entire nation,” Texas At-
torney General Greg Abbott said
in a statement. Abbott was elect-
ed last month to be the next gov-
ernor of Texas.
The Justice Department,
which is defending the case, de-
clined to comment on the case.
Obama announced the exec-
utive actions in November, say-
ing lack of action by Congress
forced him to make sweeping
changes to immigration rules on
his own.
The administrative actions
don’t provide legal immigration
status or green cards to those in
the country illegally, but millions
of immigrants will be able to ap-
ply for permission to stay in the
country for up to three years and
get a work permit.
Alex Brandon/AP
Rosa Lozano, from Washington, left, translates the speech into Spanish as Lita Trejo, from El
Salvador, and Texas state Rep. Ramon Romero, listen to President Obama’s speech on a tablet,
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