US judge rules against Biden legalization program for immigrant spouses

DACA recipient Javier Quiroz Castro embraces U.S. President Joe Biden, before the announcement of an executive action to provide immigration relief for spouses of U.S. citizens in June at the White House in Washington. (REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo)

A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday ruled against President Joe Biden’s program offering a path to citizenship for certain immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens, a blow that could keep the program blocked through Biden’s final months in office.