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“The Interim Rule transfers significant authority from immigration judges to asylum officers, grants those asylum officers significant additional authority, limits immigration-judge review to denials of applications, and upends the entire adjudicatory system to the benefit of aliens,” the suit reads.
Texas argues this policy change will result in more migrants being released into the Texas, costing the state and its residents tens of millions of dollars. Paxton filed the lawsuit to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The lawsuit comes one day after Mayorkas claimed before Congress that the Biden administration has “effectively managed” the ongoing border crisis.
The crisis at the border appears far from managed, however, as estimates from Biden’s administration say DHS is anticipating the rate of border encounters to spike to 18,000 per day in the near future. The administration sources the spike to its plan to end Title 42, a Trump-era COVID-19 restriction allowing for the speedy deportation of most migrants.
ICE AGENTS FORCED TO COORDINATE TRAVEL FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, SOME WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS: SOURCE
While a federal judge in Louisiana has blocked Biden’s latest attempt to end Title 42 deportations, it remains an end goal for the administration.
