Federal Court Dismisses State Challenges to Biden Migrant Policies on Standing Grounds

CBS News and the Washington Post report that a federal court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by Republican officials in Texas that sought to shut down a Biden program that has allowed migrants to be paroled into the United States.  The suit centered on a Biden program that allows up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the U.S. each month if they have U.S. financial sponsors. The migrants have been granted two-year work permits.  The Biden administration has argued the policy discourages would-be migrants from those four countries from journeying to the U.S.-Mexico border and unlawfully entering the country illegally. 

Texas challenged the program for bypassing limits Congress set on and violated the limited spirit of the parole authority.

U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump appointee, ruled that Texas lacked standing to sue over the policy because it had failed to show it had “suffered an injury” due to the program. He dismissed the case.

UPDATE (March 10):  Here is the district court  ruling and a press release about it on the Justice Action Center website.  Hat tip to Dan Kowalski!

KJ