Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rebuked President Joe Biden for claiming king-level authority to ignore Congress’ annual migration numbers.
“Hey, Mr. President, again, just a reminder: You’re a president, you’re not a dictator, not a king. You have to follow the rules, the laws, just like everybody else,” Paxton said in a January 8 Fox News interview.
Paxton’s rebuke follows Biden’s announcement last week that he would allow 360,000 migrants from four countries to live and work in the United States, regardless of Congress’ annual cap of about 1 million new legal immigrants.
“Today, I’m announcing that my administration is going to expand the parole program for people not only from Venezuela, but from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti,” Biden told reporters at a January 5 press conference.
Biden claimed he has the power to raise immigration numbers because congressional Republicans do not want to vote for his mass immigration policies. “I’m left with only one choice — to act on my own, do as much as I can on my own,” Biden said.
Both Paxton and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody are leading lawsuits against Biden’s refusal to accept Congress law requiring the detention of migrants at the border. Paxton’s lawsuit is being debated by the Supreme Court, and Moody’s lawsuit was heard in a federal court in Florida today. Paxton also filed a lawsuit Monday against Biden’s refusal to respect Congress’ curbs on the inflow of welfare-dependent migrants.

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