Federal Judge Andrew Hanen agreed Friday with Texas and similarly conservative states to strike down the immigration program known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) or as the one for ...

For the past 13 years, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen operated under the radar as a federal judge on the Texas/Mexico border. That changed this week, when he issued an immigration ruling impacting ...

President Barack Obama’s latest and boldest attempt to use his executive powers to grant quasi-legal status to illegal immigrants ran into a major road block late Monday as a federal judge in Texas ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

The Obama administration accused a federal judge Tuesday of sowing “fear and confusion” among illegal immigrants, potentially scaring them away from signing up for President Obama’s deportation ...

Reporting from Houston — Many immigrant advocates were not surprised to see a conservative federal judge in south Texas issue an injunction late Monday temporarily blocking President Obama’s program ...

In 2002, Judge Andrew Hanen left behind everything that was familiar to him as a successful Houston litigator to take his dream job as a U.S. district court judge. The hitch for Hanen was that his ...