Texas suing Biden Administration over ‘parole in place’ policy
SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — Texas is taking the Biden Administration and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to court over an immigration policy that could be violating federal law.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 16 states in the lawsuit that aims to stop an agency rule granting hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens the ability to “parole in place” within the United States. The lawsuit claims the rule allows certain classifications of illegal aliens to gain permanent residency status.
“Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the federal government is actively working to turn the United States into a nation without borders and a country without laws. I will not let this happen,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Biden’s new parole workaround unilaterally grants the opportunity for citizenship to unvetted aliens whose first act on American soil was to break our laws. This violates the Constitution and actively worsens the illegal immigration disaster that is hurting Texas and our country.”
Attorney General Paxton says federal statute prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining most immigration benefits, such as permanent resident status, without first leaving the country and being admitted to re-enter and reside in the country lawfully. Biden’s DHS announced it would permit 1.3 million illegal aliens, more than 200,000 of whom live in Texas, to ignore federal law and apply for permanent residency, an opportunity that is not legally available to those present in the country unlawfully, according to Paxton.
The lawsuit goes on to say Biden is blatantly circumventing the Constitution and violating laws created by Congress to restrict the use of parole authority to a small number of “case-by-case” determinations.
The lawsuit is asking the court to grant injunctive relief preventing DHS from implementing the new policy while a trial on the merits is conducted.
You can read the filing by clicking here.