03/11/2023
U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell
BREAKING: A federal judge in Florida has blocked the Biden admin’s use of mass parole + ATD (alternatives to detention) migrant releases at the border. These releases allow for much quicker processing and clear out space to avoid overcrowding in BP facilities.
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Pursuant to Florida’s lawsuit that challenged “parole + ATD (alternatives to detention),” Wetherell struck it down because it violated the Administration Procedures Act, a tactic the regime uses to rush Great Replacement regulations into effect. APA governs the federal bureaucracy’s implementation of new rules and policies.
In his 109-page decision, Wetherell also concluded that the regime is violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by not detaining illegals, as that law requires.
“Certain arriving aliens, including those who lack proper admission documents, are subject to expedited removal ‘without further hearing or review,’” Wetherell wrote:
However, if such an alien indicates an intention to apply for asylum or a fear of persecution, the alien “shall be detained” pending a final determination of asylum or credible fear of Persecution. …For all other arriving aliens, unless an immigration official determines that the alien is clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted, the alien “shall be detained” for removal proceedings.
For the most part, the Court finds in favor of Florida because, as detailed below, the evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speed bump for aliens flooding into the country by prioritizing “alternatives to detention” over actual detention and by releasing more than a million aliens into the country — on “parole” or pursuant to the exercise of “prosecutorial discretion” under a wholly inapplicable statute — without even initiating removal proceedings. …
[Biden’s actions] were akin to posting a flashing “Come In, We’re Open” sign on the southern border. The unprecedented “surge” of aliens that started arriving at the Southwest Border almost immediately after President Biden took office and that has continued unabated over the past two years was a predictable consequence of these actions. Indeed, USBP Chief Ortiz credibly testified based on his experience that there have been increases in migration “when there are no consequences” and migrant populations believe they will be released into the country.
Traitor Joe and his gang have seven days to appeal the ruling.
In January, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal and 20 states sued over Biden’s parole bonanza for 360,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. That too is an APA case.
Upshot of the case: The Great Replacement involves illegally establishing new rules (the APA violation) to justify illegally not detaining illegal aliens (the INA violation).
Got it.
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