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Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Public Charge Immigration Rule Change

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Public%20Charge%20Complaint%20-%20File%20Stamped%20Copy_0.pdf

https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-sues-biden-admin-over-public-charge-immigration-rule-change_4965855.html
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-sues-biden-over-new-rule-increases-burden-american-taxpayers-illegal-immigration
https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-public-charge

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday to stop
the Biden administration from ignoring a federal immigration law that
prevents illegal immigrants from residing in the United States if
they’re likely to rely on taxpayer-funded programs.

“I’ve sued [President Joe] Biden over a dozen times to secure our
southern border,” Paxton said on Twitter. “Now, just as 2023 is
starting, I’m bringing another lawsuit—the first of its kind in the
nation on Biden’s disastrous new public-charge rule. I’ll keep suing
[and] winning until he [and] his lawless Dems follow the law.”
People walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol
agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec.
13, 2022. (Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images)

Paxton accused the Biden administration of furthering an open borders
policy by enacting the new rule, which “effectively nullifies federal
law excluding aliens likely to become public charges,” according to
the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of Texas (pdf).

That rule has been in place since 1882 and was reaffirmed by Congress
in 1996 under the bipartisan Welfare Reform Act. By not enforcing the
law, the Biden administration has opened the door to illegal aliens
who’ll be dependent on welfare, the lawsuit alleges.

Paxton’s lawsuit argues that the December 2022 rule was enacted in
violation of federal law and is arbitrary and capricious.

“The Biden Administration is committed to opening the borders to
aliens who lack the ability to take care of themselves. Texans should
not have to pay for these costly immigrants, nor should any other
American,” Paxton said in a statement. “I will continue to defend the
rule of law and fight to ensure that the massive costs of illegal
immigration don’t further burden taxpayers.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a border town hall in
Brackettville, Texas, on Oct. 11, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The
Epoch Times)
Public Charge

Paxton’s office said the new rule prohibits the consideration of
statutorily required factors in determining whether an alien is likely
to become a “public charge.” The term public charge first appeared in
statute in the Immigration Act of 1882, where Congress barred the
admission of “any person unable to take care of himself or herself
without becoming a public charge.”

Self-sufficiency has been considered a basic principle of U.S.
immigration law since the country’s earliest immigration statutes. It
is U.S. immigration policy that aliens within the country’s borders
shouldn’t depend on public resources to meet their needs but rather
rely on their individual capabilities and the resources of their
families, sponsors, and private organizations. Further, the
availability of public benefits shouldn’t be an incentive for
immigration to the United States.

As assurance that they won’t become a drain on taxpayers, aliens
usually offer U.S. authorities documentation that their family will
financially support them. However, Biden’s rule prevents a
comprehensive probe of the truth of this material, according to
Paxton’s office.

Paxton is also leading a 14-state coalition that filed a cert-stage
brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in September 2022 after the Biden
administration tried to covertly abolish the public charge rule. That
petition was filed after the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit ruled against a Texas-led coalition.

“With America in the midst of a recession and families across the
country already facing record-high inflation, it’s completely
reprehensible to expect taxpayers to foot the bill for hundreds of
millions of dollars to sponsor more and more illegal aliens,” Paxton
said at the time.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent directs an illegal immigrant after he
crossed into the United States from Mexico through a gap in the border
wall separating Algodones, Mexico, from Yuma, Arizona, on May 16,
2022. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Rule Change

Paxton argues in his lawsuit that the Biden administration’s rule
change is intended to ensure that “virtually no alien is ever found to
be a public charge.”

While the 1996 reform was designed “to increase the bite of the public
charge determination,” the 2022 rule change “illegally narrows the
meaning of ‘public charge’ to oblivion, disregarding of the term’s
historical meaning and violating the statute,” according to the
lawsuit.

Paxton’s lawsuit argues that the 2022 rule change ignores
congressional mandates by only considering cash, but not in-kind,
government benefits when assessing whether an individual is likely to
become a public charge.

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