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In a masterclass of legal jujitsu, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and America First Legal delivered a decisive blow to one of the Biden administration\u2019s stealthiest immigration maneuvers.\u00a0\u00a0On the same day they filed suit in the Northern District of Texas, the Trump Justice Department relented and refused to oppose the suit.\u00a0\u00a0U.S. district judge Reed O\u2019Connor entered a final consent judgment vacating the 2024 Biden-era rule that expanded immigration judges\u2019 authority to \u201cadministratively close\u201d removal proceedings indefinitely.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0policy is dead nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>

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The rule sounded technical.\u00a0\u00a0In practice, it turned immigration courts into parking lots.\u00a0\u00a0Cases were paused without resolution, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to remain in the United States, obtain work authorization, and access benefits while their removal proceedings sat dormant.\u00a0\u00a0It was\u00a0de facto\u00a0<\/em>relief, backdoor amnesty by administrative fiat, without congressional approval or merits adjudication.\u00a0\u00a0The American people were not consulted or advised, and of course they did not consent.<\/p>\n

The immigration court backlog had already ballooned past 3.5 million cases under Biden policies.\u00a0\u00a0Administrative closures rose sharply, from roughly\u00a0278,000 in 2021 to nearly 392,000 by 2025.\u00a0\u00a0Many claims that would fail on the merits simply disappeared into indefinite limbo.\u00a0\u00a0This is how one party that lectures the other on \u201cdemocracy\u201d dictates rather than legislates open borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas and America First Legal correctly argued that the Department of Justice and Executive Office for Immigration Review lacked statutory authority to create such broad, open-ended amnesty.\u00a0\u00a0The Immigration and Nationality Act and Administrative Procedure Act do not empower executive agencies to engineer nationwide stays through docket manipulation.\u00a0\u00a0Judge O\u2019Connor agreed.\u00a0\u00a0The Trump DOJ, under acting attorney general Todd Blanche, did not defend the prior administration\u2019s overreach.\u00a0\u00a0It consented.\u00a0\u00a0The result: a permanent nationwide injunction ending the practice.<\/p>\n

What makes this victory especially satisfying is the strategy.\u00a0\u00a0Democrats and their aligned advocacy groups perfected the art of suing a friendly (or their own) administration in a friendly jurisdiction to lock in policy wins via consent decrees or judgments.\u00a0\u00a0Blue-state attorneys general, environmental groups, and immigration advocates have long filed in districts with sympathetic judges, often securing settlements that entrench expansive interpretations of law, block enforcement, or create new entitlements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These decrees are hard to unwind later, even when administrations change, because they carry the force of court order.\u00a0\u00a0The tactic is realism in objective (achieve concrete law enforcement) and disruptive in execution (bypass legislative gridlock and hostile forums through venue shopping and rapid settlement).<\/p>\n

Texas simply applied realism and disruption in reverse.\u00a0\u00a0Paxton sued in a Texas federal court with a proven conservative-leaning judge.\u00a0\u00a0The objective was straightforward: Kill a rule that undermined enforcement and rewarded unlawful presence.\u00a0\u00a0The tactic was equally direct: File, obtain consent from the new administration committed to sovereignty, and secure a binding judgment the same day.\u00a0\u00a0No years of appeals.\u00a0\u00a0No endless discovery.\u00a0\u00a0Just swift restoration of the principle that removal proceedings should resolve cases on the merits or lead to actual removal.<\/p>

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This is effective counter-strategy.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not hypocrisy because it restores norms and supports existing law rather than denigrating it.\u00a0\u00a0For years, the left used courts as an auxiliary Legislature when Congress would not deliver preferred outcomes on immigration, environment, or regulation.\u00a0\u00a0Conservatives are now demonstrating that the same tools can serve the national interest when wielded with discipline.\u00a0\u00a0The difference lies in the objective: One side sought to dilute sovereignty and create parallel systems of relief; Texas sought to restore it.<\/p>\n

In the broader context, Biden-era policies drove record encounters, exploded the backlog, and expanded non-merits outcomes (dismissals, terminations, and closures).\u00a0\u00a0Asylum grant rates remained low for adjudicated cases, yet hundreds of thousands effectively gained indefinite presence through administrative maneuvering.\u00a0\u00a0The tactic helped create the migrant predation funnel the administration only recently exposed.\u00a0\u00a0The consent decree does not magically clear millions of cases, but it removes a deliberate tool that made the problem worse.\u00a0\u00a0It forces future resolutions toward substance rather than perpetual pause.<\/p>\n

Critics will complain about the speed or the use of consent.\u00a0\u00a0They should direct that complaint to the years of precedent set by the other side.\u00a0\u00a0When one faction treats courts as policy weapons, the other side eventually learns to wield them, too.\u00a0\u00a0Texas chose a realistic goal, ending a specific abuse that functioned as amnesty, and executed it with disruptive efficiency.<\/p>\n

Court after court has dismantled Biden immigration initiatives, from parole expansions to family unity programs.\u00a0\u00a0Each reversal chips away at the prior regime\u2019s architecture of non-enforcement.\u00a0\u00a0The administrative closure rule was one more pillar.\u00a0\u00a0It is now gone.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty is not restored by rhetoric alone.\u00a0\u00a0It requires consistent, realistic action that disrupts failed policies and replaces them with enforceable ones.\u00a0\u00a0Texas delivered both.\u00a0\u00a0The left\u2019s own playbook, turned against the policies it once protected, produced a clear result: Removal proceedings must mean something again.\u00a0\u00a0That is realism achieved through smart, disruptive tactics.\u00a0\u00a0More, please!\u00a0<\/p>

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