Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration over its decision to end Title 42, a Trump-era border security policy.
“The Biden Administration’s disastrous open border policies and its confusing and haphazard COVID-19 response have combined to create a humanitarian and public safety crisis on our southern border,” the complaint states. “The Defendants now seek to eliminate their Title 42 border-control measures, which are the only rules holding back a devastating flood of illegal immigration. But they failed to follow the Administrative Procedure Act in attempting this destructive rescission of Title 42.”
“Without justification or concern for Texans, the Defendants unlawfully disregarded the APA’s notice-and-comment requirements, refused to consider numerous factors of crucial importance to their rulemaking, and laid bare the incoherence of their decision-making,” it continues. “The State of Texas respectfully requests preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to block Defendants’ termination of Title 42.”
In an interview with The Daily Wire, Paxton said the repeal of Title 42’s repeal will further worsen the illegal immigration crisis at the border. He also told the outlet that the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as “Remain in Mexico,” should remain in place.
“Those two programs have been the most effective at stopping people from coming into the country,” Paxton said. “This is huge for my state. We’re already overwhelmed given the fact that the Biden administration is ignoring federal law and every other aspect of immigration. This is the only thing we have left.”
“You know, they’re already pouring through,” he added. “This basically ends any kind of idea that there’s any border at all.”
