Moody sues Biden for policy permitting 30,000 migrants per month

Published Jan. 25, 2023, 8:53 a.m. ET | Updated Jan. 25, 2023

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TALLAHASSEE (FLV) – Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody joined a multi-state legal filing against President Joe Biden’s administration for a new border policy that would allow up to 30,000 migrants per month to legally enter the country.

Biden and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the measure earlier in January. It would allow up to 30,000 to apply for “advance authorization” to enter for up to two years with permission to work.

The parole program is set for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

“As we prepared to take Biden to court over his unlawful catch-and-release policies, the president announced yet another reckless attempt to continue flooding the country with massive waves of illegal immigrants,” Moody said. “Biden’s new solution to his self-created crisis at the border is to allow illegal immigrants to travel directly into the interior of the country without crossing the southern border—in direct violation of federal law.”

“His unlawful actions will not go unchecked, and we will continue to fight in court to force this president to follow public-safety immigration laws,” she said.

The complaint against the parole program argues that the program from the DHS “is not case-by-case, is not for urgent humanitarian reasons, and advances no significant public benefit.”

“It amounts to the creation of a new visa program that allows hundreds of thousands of aliens to enter the United States who otherwise have no basis for doing so,” it said.

Attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming argue the program violates limitations set by Congress for the president.

They also argue the Biden administration did not engage in the “usual notice and comment rulemaking process required by law.”

Moody sued Biden earlier in January for the border crisis, saying “unlawful immigration policies” are creating “chaos” at the southwestern border.

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