CV NEWS FEED // Twenty-one Republican attorneys general filed a motion in federal district court Thursday seeking to stop a Biden administration parole policy allowing tens of thousands of migrants to enter the country each month.
The coalition was led by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and joined by America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal group.
“The underlying lawsuit aims to stop the Biden Administration’s ‘parole’ scheme that allows 30,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the country each month and remain–indefinitely,” AFL noted in a press release sent out shortly after the filing.
“The program allows these aliens–after more or less flying to the destination of their choice–to obtain work permits and ultimately claim public benefits, such as food stamps and welfare,” the group continued.
AFL added that the administration’s parole “program floods our country with legions of illegal aliens who should not be here, only further worsening the worst immigration crisis in our nation’s history.”
Friday morning, Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took to X (formerly Twitter), writing that he was “proud” to join the motion with Paxton “and other AGs to halt the invasion at our southern border.”
In a post to X, AFL explained that Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the controversial parole program in January 2023.
“The program makes use of ‘parole,’ which is a strictly limited authority intended to allow aliens to enter the country without a visa in emergency situations,” described the legal group. “Under the Trump administration, it was normal for the parole authority to be used a few dozen times a month.”
“This new program makes a mockery of the parole authority, using it to create an entirely new parallel immigration system outside the control of Congress,” AFL continued:
The program essentially creates a “visa-free” immigration program for aliens from those countries. The program required minimal vetting that is laughably lax. Program participants do not need to have a visa or even have any kind of interview with a U.S. official before being approved for travel to the USA.
For example, applicants for immigrant visas are required to undergo a comprehensive medical exam to prevent the transmission of dangerous diseases. Aliens in the parole program don’t have to undergo any kind of exam.
“As a federal judge in Texas recently pointed out, applicants to the program are approved at a rate of 97.5%,” AFL pointed out. “Thus, applicants are virtually guaranteed admission to the United States.”
Last month, CatholicVote reported that according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), “the Biden administration’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) admitted to flying hundreds of thousands of ‘inadmissible’ migrants into the country.”
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CIS National Security Fellow Todd Bensman wrote at the time that “CBP has withheld from the Center – and apparently will not disclose – the names of the 43 U.S. airports that have received 320,000 inadmissible aliens from January through December 2023, nor the foreign airports from which they departed.”
According to Bensman, the flights carrying these migrants were all “all pre-approved” on the CBP One app for cell phones.
In January, CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez indicated that this phone application aided at least 422,000 migrant parole arrivals. Meanwhile, the aforementioned CHNV program resulted in 340,000 arrivals.
Per Montoya-Galvez, the administration’s parole programs combined accounted for a total of over one million migrants entering the country.
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