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. Biden announced the parole program earlier this month as a way to handle the arrival of an unprecedented number of migrants seeking asylum as they flee oppressive governments, poverty and crime in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti.It is aimed at curbing illegal border crossings by allowing migrants from those nations to work and live in the U.S. for two years, provided they apply for entry via a phone app from their home countries. The administration has said as many as 30,000 migrants from those countries who cross the border illegally will be turned back to Mexico each month under a new agreement, as well. 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." It's the latest effort by Texas Republicans to use the courts to stymie Biden's immigration policies while the GOP hammers his handling of the border, where arrestsTexas has also sought to stop the administration from ending a COVID-era public health order that has been used to automatically expel migrants millions of times. The Supreme Court“Every state in America, especially border states like Texas, is being crushed by the impacts of illegal immigration,” Paxton said, alleging Biden has created"a humanitarian crisis that is increasing crime and violence in our streets, overwhelming local communities, and worsening the opioid crisis." 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. Biden has said the plan"will make things better — but will not fix the border problem completely." He said Congress needs to act. "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. The plan has also drawn criticism from the left — members of Biden's party and immigrant advocates say it is blocking many of those entitled to seek asylum in the U.S. from going to court to do so. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio has said it “will deprive countless families of the legal right to seek refuge in the United States.”
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