Paxton, state AGs sue Biden over policy that reunites Central American minors with family in U.S.

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Paxton is objecting to reuniting separated families. This is truly sick and disgusting

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general on Friday sued the Biden administration over an Obama-era policy aimed at reuniting parents who are living legally in the United States with their children.

President Joe Biden last year resumed the immigration cases of some 3,000 children who had been approved to travel to the U.S. before their cases were suspended when former President Donald Trump ended the Central American Minors program in 2017.

The Biden administration later expanded the program in June, extending eligibility to legal guardians and those with pending asylum cases. The program — which applies to migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the home countries of many asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence and poverty — was reopened to new applicants in September.

In a lawsuit filed in the Amarillo-based U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Paxton and the other attorneys general argued that Biden, a Democrat, lacks authority to institute the program without authorization from Congress.

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1. Texas sues Biden administration to halt program that reunites Central American children with parents

This is sick

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal judge to halt a Biden administration immigration program that allows some Central American children to legally migrate to the United States and reunite with their parents or legal guardians — including those who have pending asylum claims.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Amarillo, claims the Central American Minors Program “defies common sense” and is rewarding “those who break the law.”

The program was created in 2014 under the Obama administration to allow children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to reunite with their parents in the U.S. rather than using smugglers to enter the country illegally. In 2017, the Trump administration ended the program. In March 2021, the Biden administration restarted it......

The attorneys general say the Biden administration doesn’t have authority to run the program because it wasn’t approved by Congress. They also argue the program places a financial burden on their states because they have to provide services to the children such as education and health care.

The other states joining the lawsuit are Arkansas, Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana and Oklahoma.