Texas Sues Biden for Exempting Border Crossers from Coronavirus Rules

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden's administration, alleging that the Department of Homeland Security has exempted border crossers from emergency Chinese coronavirus public health regulations, spurring a public health crisis at the United States-Mexico border.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, claims that the Biden administration has increasingly refused to enforce the Centers for Disease Control's Title 42 authority that requires federal immigration officials to quickly return border crossers to their native countries on the basis that they pose a public health risk to American citizens.

Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that the Biden administration effectively spurred a massive wave of illegal immigration and created a public health crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border by failing to use Title 42 to return border crossers to their native countries.

The INA's claim is that border crossers must remain detained if they pose a significant public health risk.

Instead, the Biden administration reinstituted the Catch and Release program that has allowed tens of thousands of border crossers into the U.S. interior.

The lawsuit is asking a federal judge to prevent Biden's DHS from exempting border crossers to coronavirus guidelines, such as enforcing Title 42 across the board at the southern border, quarantining migrants for at least 14 days, and testing migrants whom the administration does release into the U.S. interior.

As Breitbart News exclusively reported last month, top DHS officials have increasingly urged behind the scenes to phase out Title 42 authority, which House Republicans have said is the only border control left keeping a lid on an even larger surge of illegal immigration.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/22/texas-sues-biden-for-exempting-border-crossers-from-coronavirus-rules/