Judge Upholds Biden Program Flying 30,000 ‘Asylum Seekers’ a Month Directly Into the U.S.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton turned away a Republican challenge to a Biden Administration program that flies 30,000 “asylum-seekers” a month directly into the United States. The asylees being allowed in under this program are coming from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In dismissing the challenge, Judge Tipton claimed that the states affected had not shown an economic burden.

U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton in Victoria, Texas, ruled in favor of the humanitarian parole program that allows up to 30,000 asylum-seekers into the U.S. each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela combined. Eliminating the program would undercut a broader policy that seeks to encourage migrants to use the Biden administration’s preferred pathways into the U.S. or face stiff consequences.

Texas and 20 other states that sued argued the program is forcing them to spend millions on health care, education, and public safety for the migrants. An attorney working with the Texas attorney general’s office in the legal challenge said that the program “created a shadow immigration system.”

Advocates for the federal government countered that migrants admitted through the policy helped with a U.S. farm labor shortage.

It’s important to note that at least one of these countries – Venezuela – is refusing to accept the repatriation of any of its citizens from the United States.

More