A judge has ruled that the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to give legal status to the illegal immigrant spouses of American citizens is not valid because the Department of Homeland Security does not have the authority to carry out this kind of mass amnesty. The program, called Keeping Families Together, would have allowed those individuals to “parole in place,” and to remain in the US, despite their lack of legal status.
The suit was brought against the DHS by the State of Texas and many other states along with America First Legal. Texas has born a disproportionate amount of the burden of illegal immigration due to the sheer number of person who illegally cross into the US across the Rio Grande River and into the state.
“In this case,” the decision reads, “16 States challenge a rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security that creates a process allowing foreign nationals to be paroled ‘in place’… if [they] are present in the country illegally and are qualifying spouses or stepchildren of US citizens. Implementation of Keeping Families Together.”
BREAKING: Federal judge J. Campbell Barker (TX) has just thrown out the Biden administration’s attempt to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens via “parole in place”, ruling that DHS lacks statutory authority” to carry out the “Keeping… pic.twitter.com/Vv4PERG5rL
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 8, 2024
After weighing the merits of the case and the authorities of those involved, Judge J. Campbell Barker states that “The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority… to grant parole ‘in place’ to aliens, as that term is used in the final agency action…, or to deem parole ‘in place’ as use there be parole ‘into the United States’… That agency action is hereby set aside and vacated.”
The Keeping Families Together program as implemented by DHS in August was a component of the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to create pathways to citizenship for those illegal immigrants who are currently living in the US.
In June, DHS “announced a key step toward fulfilling President Biden’s commitment to promoting family unity in the immigration system.” In August, “DHS implemented Keeping Families Together, a process for certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens to request parole in place under existing statutory authority.”
“Parole is an exercise of DHS’s discretionary authority under section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to allow certain noncitizen ‘applicants for admission’ to be present in the United States on a temporary, case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” DHS explained in their announcement. “The INA defines an ‘applicant for admission,’ in relevant part, as a noncitizen ‘present in the United States who has not been admitted.’ Noncitizens who are present in the United States without admission or parole may be considered for parole in place under this process because they remain ‘applicants for admission.’ Parole in place is available only for noncitizens who are present in the United States.”
In other words, the idea was that if those persons who had entered the US illegally but had either spousal or step relationships to Americans, would be considered on parole simply because they were still in the US, though they had not applied for it. Those newly minted “parolees” would be permitted to “apply for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident without being required to leave the United States and be processed by a U.S. consulate overseas.” It would fast track legal status for those who has broken the law and faced no penalty for doing so.
DHS stated that their estimates showed 1,000,000 of these individuals in the US who “could be eligible to access Keeping Families Together; on average, these noncitizens have resided in the United States for 23 years.
PART 2~ Foreign-Born Population Grew by 5.1 Million in the Last Two Years (ENCLOSED ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF ARTICLES, THE ARTICLE IS EXTREMELY LONG W/STATS & GRAPHS)
By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler on May 13, 2024
The foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024 of 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022 the foreign-born population has increased 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history. The foreign-born population has never grown this much this fast. Although many think of immigrants only as workers, less than half of those who arrived since 2022 are employed. This analysis is based on the government’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), which like any survey has a margin of error, so there are fluctuations in the data. But the increase in the last two years is unlike anything seen before and is statistically significant.
Among the findings:
In March 2024 the foreign-born population reached 51.6 million, 5.1 million more than in March 2022 — the largest two-year increase ever recorded in American History.
The 51.6 million foreign-born residents in March of this year were 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population, also record highs in American history.
Since President Biden took office in January 2021 the foreign-born population has increased by 6.6 million in just 39 months.
We have previously estimated that nearly 58 percent of the increase under President Biden is due to illegal immigration.
If present trends continue, the foreign-born population will reach 62.5 million in 2030 and 82.2 million by 2040 — larger than the current combined populations of 30 states plus the District of Columbia.
Many observers think of immigrants solely as workers, but only 46 percent of the foreign-born who arrived in 2022 or later were employed in the first part of 2024 — similar to the share of new arrivals employed during previous economic expansions.
As in any human population, many newly arrived immigrants are children, elderly, disabled, caregivers, or others with no ability to work or interest in doing so.
Only about 8 percent of the 2.5 million new arrivals who are not working say they are actively looking for work.
The dramatic recent increases in the size of the foreign-born population represent net growth. The number of new arrivals was much higher but was offset by outmigration and natural mortality among the foreign-born already here.
There also is some undercount in this data, so the actual number of foreign residents in the United States is larger.
this brain dead idiot needs to be impeached now and at the same time start on harris, the GOP must put up every roadblock they can to stop anything and everything they try to locked up until they are out of office.
Just look what these 2fucking lying morons tried to do to our country It’s alright there will be their day soon I hope they get what they deserve Biden and Harris have broken enough laws to be in prison for life and the constitutional rights they violated daily They have punished our citizens for wanting our country back and to make it like it used to be respected and a country that all other countries envied Now after Obama and fucking Trump in his first term and then all of the hell they dumped on him he never faltered and I think the outcome of the elections confirms just how many people believe in President Trump Yes there should be a lot of prison buses lined up outside the WH and the Capital So it should be looked at as a saving the environment We can shut down the rock crusher and use the bus loads to smash the rocks
I don’t care how long they have been here… if they came in illegally they must be put out… & all assets seized & auctioned off to Real American Citizens…(my personal idea)… In SC we are over run… Crime is out of control. Citizens can’t afford rent because of high demand & they come in with USA govt given cash cards & buy our neighborhoods up with 3 families in 1 house… SEND THEM ALL PACKING…
For every single illegal allowed, for one reason or another, to stay in this country, a democrat should be “shown the door”.