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From left: Students David Buenrostro, Adrian James, and Jahel Ramos protest June 14, 2012, outside the Obama campaign offices in Culver City, Calif. The students demand that President Obama issue an executive order to stop deportations of illegal immigrant students in favor of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors). In July 2011, California Gov. Brown enacted the California DREAM Act, giving illegal immigrant students access to private college scholarships for state schools. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama’s DACA decision reverberates 10 years after the announcement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrant youth and advocates rally to the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton on the day of the Supreme Court's hearing on DACA in Austin, Texas, in this July 2019 photo. (Lola Gomez/Austin American-Statesman via AP) **FILE**

DHS approved DACA applications in violation of judge’s order

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to the media, Friday, June 25, 2021, after he and Vice President Kamala Harris toured of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. Harris visited the U.S. southern border as part of her role leading the Biden administration's response to a steep increase in migration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Anti-DACA court ruling sets Democrats scrambling to protect ‘Dreamers’

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FILE - In this June 18, 2020, file photo, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Attorney General Merrick Garland has tossed out a Trump administration policy that barred immigration judges from temporarily shelving some deportation cases. Garland on Thursday, July 15, 2021, overruled a decision by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that judges couldn't put those cases on hold.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Biden calls DACA ruling ‘disappointing,’ urges Congress to act

By Jeff Mordock and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Julia Paley, of Arlington, Va., with the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network, holds up a sign that reads "DACA Don't Destroy Dreamers Dreams" during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside the White House, in Washington, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

DACA was enacted illegally, federal judge rules

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with a group of "Dreamers" in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 4, 2015. (Associated Press **FILE**

Obama-era DACA program likely illegal: Judge

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In this Sept. 15, 2017, file photo, Judy Weatherly, a supporter of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) holds up a sign during a protest outside of the Federal Building in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Trump administration won’t defend DACA in court, but doesn’t want immediate cutoff

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters hold up signs during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

New anti-DACA case draws favorable judge

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In this June 22, 2016 photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego. Only about one of every three applicants passes CBP's polygraph, which is barely half the pass rate among law enforcement agencies that provided data to The Associated Press under open-records law requests. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Judge: Obama DOJ had 132 ethical lapses in last four years

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FILE - In this May 14, 2013, file photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. The Justice Department has signaled that it won’t try to block a lawsuit arising from the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques, leaving the door open for a court challenge over tactics that have since been discontinued and widely discredited. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Justice Department lawyers get reprieve on ethics course

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President Obama listens at right as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch speaks Nov. 8, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, where the president announced he would nominate Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Judge blocks his own order sending Obama lawyers to ethics class

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agents patrol along the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border on Feb. 24, 2015, near Rio Grande City, Texas. (Associated Press)

Judge Andrew Hanen scaring illegals away from Obama’s amnesty, administration says

By Andrea Noble and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama listens as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch speaks, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, where the president announced that he will nominate Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge orders ‘intentionally deceptive’ DOJ lawyers to take remedial ethics classes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Over 100 hundred people demonstrated in front of the Federal Courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, Thursday, March 19, 2015. The Justice Department might face sanctions if a federal judge determines its attorneys misled him about whether part of President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration was implemented prior to it being put on hold by the judge. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen last month halted Obama's plan. The president's plan would spare from deportation up to 5 million people in the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty)

Texas wants 108,000 3-year amnesties recinded

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From left: Marisa Falcon, Claudia Saucedo, and Yaquelin Lopez, all from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and all part of DREAMers' Moms, demonstrate outside the White House on April 28, 2014, to demand that President Obama stop deportation of immigrants. DREAMers' Moms is a National network of women and mothers who are in support of immigration reform. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Texas asks judge to rescind 108,000 three-year amnesties for Dreamers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times