West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is co-leading with Montana an amicus brief supporting Texas’ bid for a preliminary injunction of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous Parole-in-Place Policy for undocumented immigrants.
The policy would allow more than a million illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens to live in the country as temporary legal residents (protected from deportation) until they can apply for permanent residency. Those individuals would otherwise be required to leave the country before seeking permanent status. The policy also applies to noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens.
The coalition argues this move would impose “significant costs on the States, including hundreds of millions of dollars in new expenses relating to law enforcement, education, and healthcare programs.”
“Instead of fixing the country’s illegal immigration problem, the Biden-Harris tag-team is creating more costs for states,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “This administration caused the unprecedented number of illegal border crossings created by its open door policy; the Parole-in-Place program is just kicking the can down the road and incentivizing illegal acts.”
“We need common sense immigration reform that adheres to the rule of law.”
The coalition is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas not to issue just a limited injunction—an injunction of the policy that applies only within the boundaries of the plaintiff states—but rather, a nationwide injunction because a “geographically limited injunction would be ineffective.”
Indiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah joined the West Virginia- and Montana-led brief.
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