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EXCLUSIVE: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a preliminary injunction against a new Department of Homeland Security rule that would allow more asylum seekers to avoid being deported.
The new Biden administration policy, if implemented, would give asylum officers the ability to release asylum seekers into the United States if it is determined that detaining them during immigration proceedings would be "impracticable."
Paxton filed the order on Monday, days after a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from ending the Title 42 public health immigration order, which allows border officials to quickly expel migrants without allowing them to apply for asylum within the United States. The Department of Justice announced it would appeal the decision blocking the Biden administration from lifting Title 42.
Paxton said that the implementation of the new rule is another way for the Biden administration to accomplish their "real goal."
"The Biden Administration has made it clear that they do not want to abide by the Constitution or the rules and regulations set by Congress, especially regarding the Texas border," Paxton said. "Federal law requires genuine asylum and parole claims to be carefully managed and scrutinized by an immigration judge, not a bureaucrat rubber-stamping patently false claims. Not only that, but this entire Rule is just a way for this...
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