The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed this Thursday the eleventh lawsuit on immigration against the government of President Joe Biden, this time against new procedures for asylum seekers that are not yet in force.
The prosecutor alleges that the new regulations, which will come into force next May 31, “ fundamentally and illegally change asylum and parole procedures at the border,” according to a statement.
Since Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021 Paxton has started 27 lawsuits against the federal government .
Paxton and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, that is sending buses to the Capitol in Washington with immigrants arriving in the state as a form of protest, have led the fight of the Republican states against Biden’s immigration policies.
The regulations that he has the Biden government instituted, the prosecutor added, “exacerbate gaps in the deportation process for illegal aliens, prioritize alleged efficiency over national security, and costly impact Texas.”
“Not satisfied with having released more than 836,550 illegal aliens in the United States in 21 months, the 28 March, the defendants enacted an interim rule that releases even more illegal aliens into our country,” states the lawsuit.
He clarified that this is without “not counting foreign minors released by another party and foreigners who they have evaded capture.”
The rule to which it refers must enter into force on 31 of May and stipulates the procedures that border officials must follow to consider the cases of foreigners who arrive requesting citing asylum.
This policy also includes the guidelines to suspend the deportation of these people while they await the resolution of their cases.
According to the lawsuit filed by Paxton, this rule violates the National Security Law, the Immigration Law and a clause in Article II of the United States Constitution.
The complaint, contained in a document of 15 pages and filed with the Federal Court for the Northern District of Texas, names as defendants Biden, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, and the directors of the Citizenship and Immigration Service ( USCIS), and the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP), among others.