A federal judge has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens married to U.S. citizens.
The Biden administration recently unveiled a program called “Keeping Families Together,” which aimed to grant amnesty to individuals who entered the country illegally and later married an American citizen.
U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker issued an administrative stay just days after 16 Republican-led states challenged the program, which could have paved the way to citizenship for up to a million illegal immigrants.
In his ruling, Barker, a Trump appointee said that the plaintiff’s arguments were “substantial and warrant closer consideration than the court has been able to afford to date.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who played a leading role in the lawsuit, argued that the program “directly violates the rules created by Congress”and was used for “blatant political purposes.”
Both Paxton and America First Legal celebrated the ruling, pointing out that it incentivized criminality.
“We have temporarily BLOCKED Biden’s unlawful new “parole in place” program,” Paxton wrote on the X platform. “Biden’s unconstitutional scheme would have rewarded over 1 million illegal aliens with the opportunity for citizenship after breaking our country’s laws—and incentivized countless more.”
Since the Biden administration took office in January 2021, an estimated 10-15 million illegal aliens have entered the country, largely due to the White House’s ongoing refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.
While some marriages are genuine, many illegal immigrants wed themselves to American citizens in order to try and claim legal status in the country.
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