VICTORIA, Texas (AP) – A federal judge in Texas on Friday upheld a key part of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that would allow a limited number of immigrants from four countries to enter the United States on humanitarian grounds. , rejected challenges from Republican-led states. He said the program had created a financial burden on them.
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U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton in Victoria, Texas, rules in favor of a humanitarian parole program that allows up to 30,000 asylum seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States each month. did. Eliminating the program would undermine the Biden administration’s broader policy to encourage immigrants to take advantage of the country’s preferred routes into the United States. Otherwise, you will face severe consequences.
Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States from Mexico line up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Eagle Pass, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. On Friday, March 8, 2024, a federal judge in Texas upheld a key part of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that would allow a limited number of immigrants from four countries into the United States on humanitarian grounds. , rejected challenges from Republican-led states. He said the program had created a financial burden on them.
Texas and 20 other states that filed the lawsuit argued that the program forces them to spend millions of dollars on health care, education and public safety for immigrants. Lawyers working with the Texas Attorney General’s Office on legal challenges said the program “created a shadow immigration system.”
Supporters of the federal government countered that immigrants admitted through the policy were helping with the U.S. agricultural labor shortage.
An appeal seemed likely.
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Tipton is an appointee of former President Donald Trump who ruled against the Biden administration in its 2022 order setting deportation priorities.
