Havana Cuba. – Twenty states sued the Department of Homeland Security over the parole humanitarian law approved by the Biden administration in early January, with the aim of stopping the irregular migration of citizens from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela.
The state of Florida appears among the signatories of the demandin which a measure that would allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners to enter territories that are already overwhelmed is rejected.
The Republican states backing the lawsuit contend that the Department of Homeland Security has created a de facto visa program without legislative approval, and that it goes beyond the limited circumstances in which the visa can be used. parole humanitarian under federal law.
The appeal, filed before a federal court in Texas, includes among the signatories the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina , Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and Texas.
The lawsuit specifies that Florida will be one of the hardest hit states because it will have to invest millions of dollars and significant state resources – public education, health care, services for victims of violence and correctional facilities – to provide for migrants.
The attorney general of the Sunshine State, Ashley Moody, has assured that Biden’s solution to alleviate the immigration crisis that he himself created is to “allow illegal immigrants to travel (…) to the interior of the country without crossing the southern border, in violation directly from federal law.
On January 5, the US government announced that it would restrict the entry of Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants who tried to enter illegally through the border with Mexico. At the same time, it indicated that it would grant 30,000 monthly humanitarian visas to migrants of those nationalities.
The White House highlighted in a statement that the measure sought to stop the current migratory wave and, in turn, create a new “orderly, safe and humane” procedure to “substantially” reduce the number of people trying to access US territory illegally.
However, slots can only be filled by those with a financial sponsor in the US.
Under the new policy, DHS empowered border officials to expeditiously remove people who attempt to enter the country without permission, have no legal basis for remaining, and cannot be removed under the new policy. Title 42.
With the new regulations, migrants who are expeditiously removed from the US will be subject to expedited expulsion to their respective countries of origin and a re-entry ban for five years.
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