Eight states sue Biden administration over reinstated Obama-era immigration policy

1. The lawsuit alleges President Joe Biden challenging the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee and Parole Program was filed by the state of Texas and includes as plaintiffs the states of Arkansas, Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma.
2. But the administration created a program for “certain illegal aliens who are from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras (the region known as the Northern Triangle) and who reside in the United States, so long as they meet certain arbitrary qualifications” the administration created.
3. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who also participated in the summit, said, “President Trump was right to cancel this program, and the Biden administration exceeded its statutory authority in reimplementing it.
4. In addition to the CAM program, the administration over the past year first attempted to freeze deportations, then halted construction of the border wall, implemented a policy to stop arresting and deporting a broad category of illegal immigrants, and terminated the Remain-in-Mexico program, which was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
5. Eight states are suing the Biden administration claiming it is abusing an Obama-era immigration program that allows minors who entered the U.S. illegally to seek to bring in family members from their home countries.
6. “After seeing the chaos in person, it is even more clear to me now that Biden and Mayorkas are building their own illegal organization to transport illegal immigrants into and around our country – thumbing their noses at federal laws,” Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, who participated in the summit, said.
7. The lawsuit alleges, “The crux of the CAM program is its use of the parole authority – an authority only available on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or for significant public benefit – to allow the very same individuals who did not qualify as refugees to come into the United States.
8. The lawsuit is the ninth border/immigration-related lawsuit, and 20th filed overall, against the Biden administration by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
9. The lawsuit is the ninth border/immigration-related lawsuit, and 20th lawsuit filed overall, against the Biden administration by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

 

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