Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday for “illegally pre-approving” migrants to enter the United States through a mobile app that Paxton argues encourages illegal immigration.
However, migrants can use an effortlessly downloadable mobile app to sidestep the administration’s new rule.
As Breitbart News reported:
The mobile app, known as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One, entices foreign nationals living in Mexico who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims to schedule an appointment with agents at the border in the hopes of being released into American communities.
Foreign nationals in Mexico can submit their application for an appointment through the CBP One app up to 14 days in advance and then show up at eight Ports of Entry in Arizona, Texas, and California for their appointment.
Paxton said 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 said in a statement:
Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, and the entire Biden Administration have prioritized creating and protecting new ways for illegal aliens to stream into this country, no matter the cost or consequence to struggling American citizens. Time after time, my office has shown that we will fight back in court to defeat their unlawful open-borders policies. We intend to stop this rule from wreaking further havoc on the people of Texas.
However, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson defended the app, disputing it provides a “safe, orderly, and humane way” to process migrants.
“Lawful pathways like making an appointment to appear at a port of entry using the CBP One app allow us to process migrants in a safe, orderly, and humane way and reduce unlawful immigration. This is particularly critical at a time when Congress has failed to reform our broken immigration system,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Biden’s administration plans to boost the number of migrants it permits to come in to the country daily via the mobile app from 740 to 1,000, according to CBS News.
Texas said the mobile app “works in conjunction with the Administration’s expanded parole policies and processes to expedite and streamline the processing of aliens at the border and move them into the country more quickly,” according to the lawsuit.
“By inviting illegal aliens into Texas, Defendants will inflict costs on the State for public education, law enforcement and incarceration, unreimbursed health care, and other public services for illegal aliens,” the lawsuit further stated.
#Texas Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration over a new asylum rule that he argues encourages #IllegalAliens to unlawfully enter the US through the use of a mobile app. https://t.co/9CxcM9Zgqs
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) May 26, 2023
Texas Attorney General #KenPaxton has filed a lawsuit against the #Biden Administration over a new asylum rule that he argues encourages #immigrants to unlawfully enter the United States through the use of a mobile app. https://t.co/N5A8mUEAmd
— NTD News (@NTDNews) May 26, 2023
When Biden says the post-Title 42 border is “Much better than you all expected” & snickers, you know they're hiding the truth. Look at port #s. That's where Admin telling inadmissible aliens to go w/ CBP mobile app. https://t.co/aI1sFgrk8Y
— Lora Ries (@lora_ries) May 18, 2023
