Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he'll appeal the surprise ruling.

The story captured attention for being a stark contradiction from President Trump's promise to target "violent criminals" in mass deportations.

The ruling was a win for immigrant advocacy groups that sued over the president's order, which they say put thousands of lives at risk.

The GOP tax and spending bill raises the child tax credit from $2,000 to $2,200, adjusts it annually for inflation, and enshrines it permanently into U.S. tax code. However, another provision requires that the child and both parents all have Social Security numbers.

Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually used in only the most serious and rare of cases: dealing with Nazis or war criminals.

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.

The U.S. magistrate judge's Friday ruling is not final, but serves as a recommendation in Leqaa Kordia's case.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Felipe Orduña-Torres to two life sentences and Armando Gonzales-Ortega to more than 80 years in prison. Orduña-Torres was described by prosecutors as the leader of the smuggling operation and Gonzales-Ortega was his assistant.

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill that would have addressed the issue following the regular session of the Legislature, saying Senate Bill 1278 went too far to grant immunity to victims of trafficking for committing potentially violent crimes.

The decision issues some limits on the power of federal judges to universally block President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, asking lower courts to reconsider their rulings.