by Libby Emmons at The Post Millennial
A judge has ruled that the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to give legal status to the illegal immigrant spouses of American citizens is not valid because the Department of Homeland Security does not have the authority to carry out this kind of mass amnesty. The program, called Keeping Families Together, would have allowed those individuals to “parole in place,” and to remain in the US, despite their lack of legal status.
The suit was brought against the DHS by the State of Texas and many other states along with America First Legal. Texas has born a disproportionate amount of the burden of illegal immigration due to the sheer number of person who illegally cross into the US across the Rio Grande River and into the state.
“In this case,” the decision reads, “16 States challenge a rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security that creates a process allowing foreign nationals to be paroled ‘in place’… if [they] are present in the country illegally and are qualifying spouses or stepchildren of US citizens. Implementation of Keeping Families Together.”…
BREAKING: Federal judge J. Campbell Barker (TX) has just thrown out the Biden administration’s attempt to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens via “parole in place”, ruling that DHS lacks statutory authority” to carry out the “Keeping… pic.twitter.com/Vv4PERG5rL
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After weighing the merits of the case and the authorities of those involved, Judge J. Campbell Barker states that “The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority… to grant parole ‘in place’ to aliens, as that term is used in the final agency action…, or to deem parole ‘in place’ as use there be parole ‘into the United States’… That agency action is hereby set aside and vacated.”
The Keeping Families Together program as implemented by DHS in August was a…
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