Federal judge strikes down Harris-Biden admin effort to grant ‘amnesty’ to illegal migrants married to US citizens

A Texas national judge connected Thursday struck down nan Harris-Biden administration’s scheme to accelerated way imperishable residency for illegal migrants joined to American citizens. 

US District Judge J. Campbell Barker ruling comes 2 months aft he issued an bid temporarily pausing nan administration’s alleged “Parole successful Place” program, which sought to assistance activity authorization, imperishable residency and yet citizenship to spouses and stepchildren of US citizens who person been successful nan state for astatine slightest 10 years.  

“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and is not successful accordance pinch law,” Barker wrote successful his 74-page ruling, adding that nan argumentation “focuses connected nan incorrect point successful identifying ‘significant nationalist benefits’ — nan benefits of aliens’ caller ineligible status, alternatively than their beingness successful this country.” 

The judge, an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump, recovered that “history and intent corroborate that defendants’ position stretches ineligible mentation past its breaking point.” 

The ruling follows a suit revenge by 16 Republican-led states successful August arguing that nan programme “incentivizes forbidden migration and will irreparably harm” nan states. 

The suit further contended that nan “Biden-Harris Administration — dissatisfied pinch nan strategy Congress created, and for blatant governmental purposes — has yet again attempted to create its ain migration system.” 

President Biden announced nan Parole successful Place programme successful June, arsenic portion of a sweeping group of executive actions connected migration that came successful nan aftermath of a historical surge of migrants illegally entering nan state passim his first term. 

It was expected that astir 500,000 spouses of US citizens, and 50,000 non-citizen children, would use from nan program, which has now been deemed illegal.

Without Parole successful Place, non-citizen spouses will apt request to walk a years-long hold extracurricular of nan US earlier qualifying for nan aforesaid benefits. 

The suit complete nan Harris-Biden administration’s Parole successful Place argumentation was revenge by 16 GOP-led states. AFP via Getty Images

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and galore different Republican lawmakers described Biden’s scheme astatine nan clip arsenic “amnesty to hundreds of thousands of forbidden aliens.” 

America First Legal Executive Director Gene Hamilton, who had been representing nan conjugation of states successful their lawsuit, praised nan attorneys wide that “stood up” to nan Harris-Biden administration. 

“Since time one, nan Biden-Harris Administration has dedicated itself to nan decimation of our migration strategy and nan erasure of our borders,” Hamilton said successful a statement. “Time and again, nan States stood up. And today, nan awesome State of Texas and nan courageous Ken Paxton, alongside a conjugation of different brave Attorneys General, succeeded successful stopping an forbidden programme that would person provided amnesty to hundreds of thousands of forbidden aliens and paved nan way for nan largest administrative amnesty successful American history.”