Texas sues to unravel Biden's plan to allow 30,000 asylum-seekers into U.S. monthly
President Joe Biden tours the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso earlier this month. The president has embraced policies that don’t reflect the needs of asylum-seekers or reasons for economic migration., under which 30,000 asylum seekers a month will be allowed into the U.S., claiming Biden is going around Congress to create what is effectively a new visa program.
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of Texas and 19 other red states, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues that Biden has overstepped his authority and"effectively created a new visa program — without the formalities of legislation from Congress." The border plan is an expansion of a program that the White House says led to a 90-percent drop in the number of Venezuelan nationals trying to cross the border, from roughly 1,100 a day to about 100 a day, since it was enacted in October.
"If the most extreme Republicans continue to demagogue this issue and reject solutions, I'm left with only one choice: To act on my own," Biden said in a speech at the White House earlier this month.
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