Sixteen Republican attorneys general filed suit in district court on Friday against the Biden administration seeking to stop the implementation of a policy that extends amnesty to aliens living in the United States illegally. The motion states that the Democrats “[have] tried again to create [their] own immigration system” rather than abiding by the (*16*). The policy, which, among other things, grants American citizenship to spouses of Americans, was enacted this week.
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Texas and 15 other Republican-led states filed suit against the Biden administration on Friday to stop a recent program that could provide legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens.
The lawsuit, filed just days after the program opened its application period, is the latest in a series of lawsuits Texas is using to challenge its federal immigration policies and powers.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, seeks a fleeting restraining order and a preliminary injunction to immediately suspend the program.
The file states:
“The Biden-Harris administration – dissatisfied with the system created by Congress and for obvious political reasons – has once again attempted to create its own immigration system,” the 67-page court filing states.
“This agency action is nothing less than a mass amnesty disguised as alleged executive discretion – a comprehensive last-minute ploy by an administration determined to rewrite immigration laws without Congress,” it said.
It also said the program violated the law because it abused the so-called parole, a Department of Homeland Security authorization that allows people outside the United States to enter the country on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons.
Rather, the Biden program seeks to “massively parole foreign nationals” who are already in the country, the motion states.
“The power to grant parole is not unlimited,” it continued.
The DHS also responded to the lawsuit on Friday:
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the program, said the agency would defend the program in court and continue to process recent applications.
White House spokesman Angelo Fernández Hernández said in a statement:
“Republican elected officials continue to show they are more focused on political games than on helping American families or fixing our broken immigration system.
The lawsuit seeks to separate American citizens from their spouses and stepchildren who are already eligible for lawful enduring residency and could remain together during that process.”
The Biden-Harris amnesty plan, which Biden announced on June 18, is expected to cover around a million illegal immigrants, as my colleague Nick Arama wrote. But as she asked at the time, “By what legal authority does he have these measures?” It is likely that the Supreme Court will have an answer to that in due course, as well as to other lawsuits moving through the country’s courts over the government’s failure to keep American citizens safe and sound.
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