Magnolia State News

(Jackson, Mississippi) On May 26, Attorney General Lynn Fitch, along with22 other Attorneys General, filed an amicus brief in the case of Florida v. U.S. supporting the State of Florida’s lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s latest unlawful immigration policy, which creates a dangerous crisis at our southern border.

“The Biden Administration has tried one failed immigration policy after another,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch. “And all of them have led to the same result: chaos at the border that makes Mississippi and every state a border state. We are working hard to end human trafficking and stem the rising fentanyl epidemic, but the Administration’s decisions make it harder and harder to protect the people of Mississippi.” 

Since President Biden took office, illegal immigration has risen to 5.5 million, larger than the population of 28 states. Rather than detain individuals as federal law requires, the Administration has released more than a million immigrants it encountered at the border into the U.S. 

In the brief, the Attorneys General write, “The Administration’s en masse parole of aliens violates federal immigration law and abdicates its responsibility to secure the nation’s borders.” 

The Attorneys General also argue, “The Administration’s hands are far from clean. It is responsible for the crisis at the border that it claims [Parole With Conditions] is necessary to address, and the history of PWC reeks of bad faith. Moreover, the Administration’s abdication of its responsibilities to detain aliens and enforce immigration law irreparably harms Amici States. The en masse parole of aliens imposes huge, unrecoverable costs on Amici States, including surging expenses for education, law enforcement, and emergency medical care.” 

Attorneys General from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West

Virginia, and Wyoming joined General Fitch in the brief.

A copy of the brief is available here.

Original source can be found here