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They file a lawsuit in the US to suspend the refugee program for minors in Central America
Eight federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit Friday against the Joe Biden administration for alleged abuse of the Central American Minors' Parole and Refugee Program.
This law allows the children of immigrants from Central America to reunite with their fathers and mothers in the United States.
To avoid risking their lives by crossing the border illegally, the program allows children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to qualify for refugee status or for humanitarian parole in order to be reunited with their parents.
Texas prosecutor Ken Paxton is leading the lawsuit and has claimed that Biden's law has been flagrantly violated. The CAM law is considered unconstitutional, since it forces states to receive foreigners illegally, and ensures that the lawsuit is to stop this situation.
In 2014, a wave of illegal crossing of Central American minors began, which led the administration of former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) to create the CAM law.
In August 2017, the program was suspended by the government of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), which generated a legal dispute in which 12 parents of minors who had benefited from the program sued in a state court to have it restored. CAM.
Approximately 13,000 families had applied since the program had been launched, only 1,627 applications were approved for shelter and 1,465 were granted a special permit.
In January 2017, at the time the Trump administration halted the issuance of travel documents, there were nearly 3,000 petitions in the process. The government would have continued to receive the money from the applications, and it was in August 2017 that the suspension of the program was announced.
The reinstatement of the CAM program was one of Biden's presidential campaign promises on immigration issues.
Ken Paxton declared that the Joe Biden administration has only brought disaster to the United States through its “illegal and unconstitutional” immigration policies.
With this lawsuit, there would already be nine that Texas presents in its fight to block the immigration measures of the Biden Administration. In company with Texas, in demand are also Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, Missouri and Oklahoma.
