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A US federal judge has lifted President Joe Biden's hundred-day moratorium on most deportations.
Drew Tipton issued an injunction against a January Biden decree on Tuesday night (local time) at the request of Texas.
Texas argues the moratorium violates federal law and could impose additional costs on the US state.
Tipton had already temporarily suspended the presidential decree in January.
Biden had already promised the moratorium on deportation during the election campaign and ultimately wants to change immigration law so that the residence status of around eleven million people living in the USA without valid papers will be legalized.
Tipton had been appointed by Biden's predecessor Donald Trump, who had forced deportations.
The judge's decision does not mean that the deportations will resume at the earlier pace, because the immigration authorities had a great deal of discretion even before the moratorium.
It was still unclear whether the Biden government would take legal action against the injunction.