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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)

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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)

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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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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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Judge blocks his own order sending Obama lawyers to ethics class

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

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

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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

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A legal immigrant reads a guide of the conditions needed to apply for the so-called "Dreamers" program, formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights offices in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant Dreamers who refused to return 3-year amnesties won’t be deported

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