Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday to prevent the Biden administration from passing an immigration measure that would allow undocumented immigrants receive conditional releasel after legally entering the United States, according to Fox News.
Paxton applied for temporary restraining order O a policy providing for the parole of immigrants on humanitarian grounds “with conditions”, if Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters overcrowding and 12 other states have joined the order: Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Paxton argued in his motion that the policy, known as conditional parole, “was passed without the necessary procedures” and “without regard to all relevant facts and is inconsistent with applicable law.”
A federal judge in Florida had already suspended that immigration measure on Thursday and issued a temporary restraining order for two weeks until a hearing is held.
Friday’s Texas Attorney General’s motion added to an ongoing border policy lawsuit filed in Texas by Republican attorneys general involving 21 states, including Florida, according to CNN.
In response to Florida’s executive order, Deputy Minister of Border Policy and Immigration Blas Nunez-Neto said on Friday morning that the decision “will lead to unsafe overcrowding at CBP facilities and undermine our ability to efficiently process and transport migrants, risking creating dangerous conditions for border agents as well as non-citizens in detention.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that The rule allows CBP to grant parole to immigrants “for urgent humanitarian reasons or in connection with a significant public benefit.”.
“The fact is, when there was overcrowding at Border Patrol facilities, both the Republican and Democratic administrations used this parole right to protect the safety of migrants and the workforce,” DHS said in a written statement Friday.
Probation policy with conditions, Published in a memo on Wednesday, it allows border guards to release migrants without formal charges under certain conditions after health checks and criminal records. Then, the migrant must schedule a formal immigration hearing within 60 days.
Source: La Opinion
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