The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns amnesty. According to Candace Hathaway at The Blaze, a federal judge on Thursday hit the Biden-Harris administration hard on their plan to give amnesty to 550,000-plus illegal aliens currently living in the United States.
Earlier this year, a coalition of 16
Republican-led states, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and
America First Legal, filed a lawsuit against the administration for its “Keeping
Families Together” program. The program would have granted amnesty to illegal
immigrant spouses and stepchildren of American citizens, Blaze News previously
reported.
“Once again, we have stopped the
Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy America’s borders and
undermine the rule of law.”
Additionally, the program would have
permitted beneficiaries to parole in place, allowing them to remain in the
country while their status is adjusted.
The lawsuit, filed by the 16 state
attorneys general, argued that the administration’s claim that it would apply
to roughly 550,000 illegal aliens was “likely a significant underestimate,”
projecting that it could be closer to 1.3 million.
The complaint contended that the process
was unconstitutional because it circumvented Congress and would “irreparably harm”
the states’ communities.
U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker, a
Trump-appointed judge, sided with the states’ lawsuit, striking down the
program.
In his 74-page ruling, Barker stated that
the administration’s program “focuses on the wrong thing in identifying ‘significant
public benefits’ – the benefits of aliens’ new legal status, rather than their
presence in this country.”
“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and
is not in accordance with law for this reason as well,” he concluded, adding
that the “defendants’ view stretches legal interpretation past its breaking
point.”
“The court declares that defendants lack
statutory authority … to grant parole ‘in place’ to aliens,” Barker wrote.
America First Legal Executive Director
Gene Hamilton stated, “Since day one, the Biden-Harris administration has
dedicated itself to the decimation of our immigration system and the erasure of
our borders.”
“Time and again, the states stood up. And
today, the great state of Texas and the courageous Ken Paxton, alongside a
coalition of other brave attorneys general, succeeded in stopping an illegal
program that would have provided amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal
aliens and paved the path for the largest administrative amnesty in American
history,” Hamilton added.
Paxton wrote in a post on X, “Once again,
we have stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy
America’s borders and undermine the rule of law. This unlawful parole scheme
would have rewarded more than 1 million illegal aliens with citizenship and
incentivized millions more to break into our country. I look forward to the day
when the federal government starts following the law again.”
Hathaway’s
article goes on to remind her readers that Barker’s ruling could be appealed,
but there was no comment from either the White House or the Department of
Homeland Security gave a comment to CBS News.
When
the United States granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the 1980s
during the Ronald Reagan administration, Americans were promised that the
borders would be secured to prevent such an amnesty happening every again. As
all Americans should be aware, the borders are still not secure, and millions
more illegal aliens have entered the United States. There is only one way to
deal with such illegal immigration and that is mass deportation. I am one of
the six out of every ten Americans who support Donald Trump’s plan to deport
illegal immigrants.
