Monday's ruling did not invalidate Biden's executive order, but simply put its implementation on hold for two weeks to give the court time to consider the facts and arguments, pro and con, of the case before issuing a final decision.

Nonetheless, Biden issued a scathing statement on Tuesday, condemning the ruling and accusing the judge of forcing illegal aliens to be "needlessly separated" from their families:

"Last night, a single district court in Texas ruled that our work to keep families together has to stop. That ruling is wrong. These families should not be needlessly separated. They should be able to stay together, and my Administration will not stop fighting for them."

Despite his open border policy and public condemnation of those [who] support the deportation of people who enter the US illegally, Biden claims that "I am not interested in playing politics with the border or immigration."

Illegal aliens who have broken US immigration laws for at least a decade and married a US citizen during that time "have become invaluable contributors to our communities," Biden's statement claims.

Issued in June, Biden's executive order circumvents US immigration law by granting a path to citizenship to illegal aliens—one that does not require them to first leave the country before applying—who have successfully remained in the country for at least 10 years and married a legal US resident prior to the order's issuance on June 18.

Biden's executive order would affect a half million illegal aliens and cost states like Texas tens of millions of dollars a year, Fox News reports:

"The administrative stay issued by US District Judge J. Campbell Barker comes just days after 16 states, led by Republican attorneys general, challenged the program that could benefit an estimated 500,000 immigrants in the country, plus about 50,000 of their children.

"One of the states leading the challenge is Texas, which in the lawsuit claimed the state has had to pay tens of millions of dollars annually from health care to law enforcement because of immigrants living in the state without legal status." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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