CIS Prevails in Challenge to Biden-Harris Immigration Actions
First-ever ruling holding DHS accountable for ignoring law requiring environmental analysis
By Julie Axelrod on September 30, 2024
On Friday, in a substantial win for American citizens harmed by the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies, a federal judge for the first time held the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accountable for violating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when taking immigration actions that “unsecured the border almost overnight”. The case is Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform v. Department of Homeland Security.
Signed into law by President Nixon on January 1, 1970, NEPA was the first of several major environmental laws passed in the 1970s. NEPA declared a national policy to protect the environment, born out of a concern over population growth. To implement that policy, NEPA requires federal agencies to provide a detailed statement of environmental impacts, subsequently referred to as an environmental impact statement (EIS), for every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
Though deliberately letting millions of people into the country is an environmentally significant policy, neither DHS nor any of the federal agencies responsible for immigration policy, including the Department of State and legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agencies, have ever performed NEPA compliance at any level before carrying out actions that expand immigration.
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