Border guards encountered more illegal immigrants in Fiscal Year 2022 than in any year the federal government has recorded.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed at least nine separate lawsuits against the Biden administration over illegal immigration.
The State of Texas enjoyed a temporary victory last year when a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to reimplement the policy.
Attorneys general from 20 states wrote in a letter that the panel seems to exist only to infringe on “the exercise of constitutional rights.”
The policy was instituted by the Trump administration and continued under Biden as a measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Last year, a federal judge in Amarillo ordered the U.S. government to reinstate the policy, a decision that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Shortly after he took office in January, President Biden ended work on former President Trump’s border wall system.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported record-setting numbers of illegal crossings in Fiscal Year 2021.
The justices said the Biden administration likely would not have been able to disprove that the cancelation was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Texas and Missouri both sued the Biden administration in April to prevent the termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols.
The lawsuit decries the effects of the federal government placing illegal aliens in “congregate settings.”
The states allege that the decision to end the Migrant Protection Protocols was “arbitrary and capricious.”
