Texas sues Biden to reinstate stay in Mexico asylum policy
Texas Attorney Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration today in an effort to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols program. Commonly known as the Remain-in-Mexico initiative, the policy was implemented during the Trump administration in 2019 to ease the burdens that overcrowding at the border brought to personnel there. Joe Biden quickly dissolved the program when he took office. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joined Paxton in filing the lawsuit.
Joe Biden’s chronic case of Trump Derangement Syndrome is evident in his policy decisions, including those that apply to illegal immigration. Joe’s an open borders kind of guy these days. In order to appease the far left of his party, he made quick work of abandoning all that the Trump administration had in place at the southern border to deal with waves of migrants flooding the border seeking asylum. Needless to say, word travels fast. Migrants have received the message loud and clear – just cross the border and everything is fine. Illegal migrants have the expectation of remaining in America, not Mexico from where they entered the U.S.
One obvious solution to the exploding crisis on the southern border is to reinstate the Remain-in-Mexico program. Attorneys General Paxton and Schmitt ask that the program be reinstated nationwide. Both ask that Texas and Missouri be awarded “the costs of this action and reasonable attorney’s fees.” The lawsuit calls Biden’s decision “arbitrary and capricious”.
The Trump administration first implemented the Migrant Protection Protocols program in January 2019 in what it described as an effort to “allow more resources to be dedicated to individuals who legitimately qualify for asylum,” according to then-U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The policy required asylum seekers who passed through Mexico on their way to the U.S. to stay in Mexico while their claims were processed in U.S. courts. Previously, migrants could wait inside the U.S. for a court decision, which would often take months or years.
More than 70,000 migrants who were enrolled in the MPP program were sent back to Mexico. Many were forced to live in sometimes dangerous and unsanitary migrant camps.
When Biden suspended the Remain-in-Mexico program, he did not bother to provide an immediate plan to allow migrants to enter the country. In February, those in the Remain-in-Mexico program were allowed to enter the U.S. Biden’s hasty, rash actions created a lot of uncertainty among border patrol agents and other law enforcement officials on the southern border. At the same time, Department of Homeland Security officials announced a 100-day moratorium on deportations. Attorney General Paxton filed the first lawsuit against the new Biden administration over that executive order. A federal judge ruled in favor of Paxton in that case.
Paxton continues to hold the Biden administration accountable, as it relates to Texas. He has sued over Biden’s decision to pick winners and losers in the energy sector. When Biden rescinded permits for the Keystone XL pipeline, he filed a lawsuit, as he did over new restrictions on oil drilling on federal lands.
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki accidentally admitted what most Americans have known for weeks Monday: Mexico and Guatemala are now increasing security to “Make crossing the border more difficult.”
“We understand that there was an agreement with Honduras, Mexico, and Guatemala to place more troops at the border… When were these implements struck?” asked one reporter.
“There have been a series of bilateral discussions,” said Psaki. “There was a commitment to increase border security… I think the objective is to make it more difficult to make the journey and make crossing the borders more difficult.”
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It is looking like the Biden team is realizing that they have screwed up and turned control of the border over to the Mexican cartel enriching drug dealers and human traffickers. VP Harris seems AWOL on her assignment to deal with the border.
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