Will Fifth Circuit Allow Invasion by Appointment?
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December 4, 2024
IRLI shows that Texas has standing to challenge mass migration app
WASHINGTON—The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting a lawsuit by Texas against a Biden Administration mass-migration app. The app allows would-be illegal aliens to schedule their crossing into America with Border Patrol, at which point they will be granted parole and released into our country.
The point of these programs, the administration claims, is to make what it calls “irregular migration”—the mass influx of illegal entries over the border—into “regular migration.” But there is nothing in this program that makes this app-fueled migration regular, in the sense of law-abiding.
In the parole statute as applied here, parole may only be granted on a case-by-case basis for “significant public benefit.” No significant benefit to the public is served by paroling any particular alien under this program; rather, as the administration concedes, the program’s supposed benefit—the reduction of “irregular migration” by providing the app alternative—is only significantly advanced by paroling tens of thousands of other illegal aliens en masse. And the benefit of en masse parole cannot be used to justify individual parole on a case-by-case basis.
https://irli.org/will-fifth-circuit-allow-invasion-by-appointment/
