Florida files lawsuit aimed at preventing ‘mass release’ of illegal migrants by Biden administration
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLV) – As Title 42 is set to expire Thursday at midnight, the state filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing “mass release” of illegal migrants by Biden administration.
Title 42 is a rule enacted by the Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic to more easily and swiftly deport illegal aliens from the country.
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office said the Biden administration must explain to a federal judge “why a new immigration policy does not violate a court order obtained by Attorney General Ashley Moody earlier this year.”
“The judge’s order compelling a response follows two legal actions by Attorney General Moody during the past 24 hours,” the release said.
“Once Title 42 expires, President Joe Biden plans to release the crush of illegal immigrants gathered at the border into the interior of the country,” the statement said.
This plan, uncovered by Moody through litigation efforts, was confirmed this week through an email by an official at the U.S. Department of Justice.
“The Biden administration’s new policy is in direct conflict with a ruling earlier this year obtained by Attorney General Moody in federal court. In the ruling, United States District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell held that Biden’s federal immigration policies are illegal and must change,” the release continued.
“It now appears the only thing the Biden administration is willing to change about the policy is the name,” it said.
“The gall of Biden to thumb his nose at a federal court order and proceed with an unlawful plan to allow what amounts to an invasion at our Southwest Border is not only unprecedented, it is dangerous,” Moody said in a statement.
“We have blown the whistle on Biden every step along his path to illegally dismantle our nation’s border security system—and even as the clock ticks down to the end of Title 42, we are taking action to force this administration to follow the law, secure the border and protect the American people,” Moody said.
On Wednesday, Moody said Biden’s “border crisis” is about to “kick into overdrive.”
As that policy expires, the Biden administration announced new rules on asylum that would reportedly “ramp up swift deportations” of migrants crossing the southern border.
Migrants would be disqualified from protections in the U.S. if they did not provide proof that they requested refugee status in another country while traveling to the U.S.
“We uncovered Biden’s disastrous plan almost a year ago, yet the corporate media ignored the overwhelming evidence that DHS plans to stand down as Title 42 expires and hundreds of thousands of migrants storm the Southwest Border,” Moody said in a statement Wednesday.
