Arrest Greg Abbott

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29. Give Garland a call! The ACLU has filed a case

Last edited Tue Aug 9, 2022, 01:58 PM - Edit history (2)

He's been busy!

The feds often sue states.
And the states sue the feds.

In that July complaint, the ACLU asked the Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation into DPS.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/8/aclu-tells-feds-not-work-texas-arrest-illegal-immi/

These are from 2021:
https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2021-07-28/unconstitutional-and-fascist-texas-governor-greg-abbott-issues-order-restricting-the-transportation-of-migrants

https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2021-07-30/abbott-is-running-his-own-immigration-policy-is-it-legal

There was a recent lawsuit. Biden wrote an EO to reverse Trump's immigration policies. Texas sued the feds and a Trump appointed judge blocked Biden's executive order, so "stay in Mexico" remained. The case went to the Supreme Court. Biden won that round on June 30th. But yesterday, one month later, the judge lifted the injunction, so for now "stay in Mexico" is over. However, Texas will appeal, so this is not the end.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/20/title-42-border-judge-ruling-migrants/

“With the pandemic, the Trump administration enacted Title 42 with the excuse that the border needed to be closed for public health reasons. So we need to understand the interaction between these two policies because even if there is an end to MPP, Title 42 continues to be operating,” Olea said. “And most of the individuals that are trying to seek asylum are being rejected, expelled and returned to Mexico. So when we look at the numbers, there’s more than two million people impacted by Title 42. And the number of people impacted by MPP, even though large, is less, around 80,000 or 90,000 persons.” https://news.wttw.com/2022/08/07/after-supreme-court-ruling-immigrant-rights-advocates-push-end-remain-mexico-policy

On March 4, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth ruled in favor of Texas and ordered the Biden administration to stop exempting unaccompanied children from Title 42 expulsions. That same day, a federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., reaffirmed a lower court’s ruling in a separate case that it’s illegal to expel asylum-seeking migrant families to countries where they could be persecuted or tortured.

After the CDC announced that it was letting Title 42 expire, Arizona and 21 other states filed a federal lawsuit on April 3 in the Western District of Louisiana, asking a judge to stop the government from lifting Title 42. Texas filed a separate lawsuit on April 22 seeking the same thing.

Both lawsuits argue the Biden administration violated administrative procedural laws and that if Title 42 is lifted as planned, it could lead to chaos at the border.

On Wednesday, District Judge Robert R. Summerhays, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, temporarily blocked the Biden administration from winding down the use of Title 42 and indicated that he plans to block efforts to end Title 42 altogether. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/29/immigration-title-42-biden/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/08/mpp-biden-asylum-mexico/

President Biden quickly ended the program after taking office, but Kacsmaryk last fall sided with several Republican-led state officials who sued the administration to force a restart of MPP. Between December 2021 and early July, about 5,800 asylum seekers were sent back to Mexico to await their U.S. court dates, the latest DHS records show. Most were adults from Nicaragua and Venezuela.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court determined in a 5-4 opinion that Kacsmaryk went too far by requiring Biden to keep in place policies that infringe on his ability to enforce immigration laws and shape foreign policy, given that MPP relied on agreements with Mexico.