Texas Attorney General sues U.S. over Immigrant App
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Joe Biden over an app that allows illegal immigrants from Mexico to apply for entry into the country.
The CBP One mobile app, available to those living in northern Mexico, allows non-citizens without proper documentation to apply online for entry into the U.S.
According to the lawsuit, the app allows for online applications through some southwestern land border crossings instead of applying directly at checkpoints.
“The Biden Administration deliberately conceived of this phone app with the goal of illegally pre-approving more foreign aliens to enter the country and go where they please once they arrive.’’
Paxton added that he would fight back in court to defeat the “unlawful open-borders policies.”
His lawsuit said the federal government’s use of the app to control the southern U.S. border “does not meet even the lowest expectation of competency and runs foul of the laws Congress passed to regulate immigration”.
The attorney general added that the goal of the lawsuit is to stop the constant flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico into the U.S.
Paxton has filed over 20 lawsuits against the Biden administration, including over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, mandatory pay raises for federal contractors, a face mask mandate, and obligatory vaccinations for corporate employees.
Earlier, the Title 42 immigration policy, which allowed migrants to be sent home as a measure to combat COVID-19, expired.
Shortly thereafter, Biden said the situation at the U.S. southern border was “much better” than expected, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said the number of asylum seekers had dropped by half since the end of Title 42.
Under the Biden administration, the U.S. has faced a record number of migrants arriving at its border with Mexico.
The previous record was broken in 2021 and later in 2022 with over 2.3 million people.
The U.S. government said the country faced an influx of more than 1.2 million migrants in 2023.
Meanwhile, Fox News and other media outlets claim that more than six million illegal immigrants entered the country during Biden’s term.
