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   From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Adam Shaw , Brandon Gillespie , Bill Melugin , Kelly Laco   
   Published March 8, 2023   
      
   A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday struck down the Biden   
   administration’s use of parole to mass release migrants into the U.S.   
   interior, finding the practice unlawful and accusing the administration   
   of turning the border into a "meaningless line in the sand."   
      
   Judge T. Kent Wetherell ruled in response to a lawsuit from the state   
   of Florida, which alleged the administration’s mass release of tens of   
   thousands of migrants via humanitarian parole into Alternatives to   
   Detention — known as "Parole + ATD" — is unlawful.   
      
   In a scathing opinion Wednesday, Wetherell stated the Biden   
   administration had "effectively turned the Southwest Border into a   
   meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for   
   aliens flooding into the country."   
      
   Cut!   
      
   "Today’s ruling affirms what we have known all along, President Biden   
   is responsible for the border crisis and his unlawful immigration   
   policies make this country less safe. A federal judge is NOW ordering   
   Biden to follow the law, and his administration should immediately   
   begin securing the border to protect the American people," Republican   
   Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a statement following the   
   ruling.   
      
   The administration had been increasingly using parole — which the   
   statute says is supposed to be used on a "case-by-case basis for urgent   
   humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit" — to release   
   migrants quickly into the interior to reduce overcrowding at the border   
   as it deals with historic migrant numbers at the border. Florida   
   contended that the government is violating statutory mandates that   
   migrants be detained. The administration had argued that there is no   
   "non-detention policy" and that it is using its prosecutorial   
   discretion.   
      
   "The evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the   
   Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more   
   than a speedbump 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," the judge said,   
   siding with Florida.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-rules-bidens-bord   
   r-policies-unlawful-speedbump-illegal-migrants   
      
   Time to impeach this idiot we have for a president.   
      
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