Caleb Ecarma
Although he announced what some considered a centrist plan to deal with the ongoing immigration crisis in the United States, Joe Biden doesn’t seem to have gained any points on either side of the aisle. The President, who triggered progressive game this month about new policies aimed at deporting more migrants and opening up more avenues for asylum seekers – is now the subject of a lawsuit by a band of 20 Republican-led states arguing that his new agenda is a gross excess of the government.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Texas attorney general’s office, urges a federal court to strike down the administration’s program that would grant temporary asylum to 30,000 approved migrants per month, a quota offset by Mexico’s promise to I accept 30,000 unauthorized migrants from the United States each month. The states, which include Florida, Missouri, Ohio and Texas, specifically argue that the Department of Homeland Security lacks the authority to develop policy that “equates to creating a new visas”.
“The requesting states…face substantial and irreparable harm as a result of the Department’s abuses of its parole authority, which potentially allow hundreds of thousands of additional aliens to enter each of their already submerged territories” , we read. the trial. Citing claims that the parole program would, among other things, place undue strain on their health and education systems, the plaintiffs say the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas “should enjoin, declare illegal, and strike down the Department’s anarchic parole”. program.” In a statement of his own Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton further accused the president of enacting an “open border agenda [that] has created a humanitarian crisis that is increasing crime and violence on our streets, overwhelming local communities and worsening the opioid crisis.
Over the past two years, the White House has been rod by a steady stream of immigration-related lawsuits from Republican-run states, including defies Biden’s efforts to lift the green card and asylum restrictions put in place by his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump. Republican attorneys general went to the Supreme Court last month to block the White House to lift Title 42, a law the Trump administration has used to rapidly increase border deportations by claiming migrants pose a pandemic-related health risk. (Under Title 42, migrants are not offered the right to appear before an immigration judge prior to deportation.)
Ironically, even as the Biden administration prepares arguments for lifting Title 42, the president’s new immigration agenda relies heavily on strengthening it — a contradiction that has drawn heavy criticism from defenders of the title. immigration and progressive legislators. “The expansion of title 42 is the wrong approach”, Vanessa Cardenas, the executive director of the immigrant advocacy organization America’s Voice, told me last week. “The president has actually tried to end many of Trump’s policies, and yet his administration continues to expand them, which creates a credibility problem with this president and Democrats in general.”