By Heather Hamilton, Social Media Reporter
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody filed an amended complaint saying the Biden administration’s latest immigration policy is unlawful.
The new policy, called “Parole + Alternatives to Detention,” releases illegal immigrants within the borders of the United States without starting a legal process for removal.
The complaint states that federal immigration officials are assisting migrants in resettling around the country and that the Transportation Security Administration is “accepting immigration arrest warrants as identification sufficient to board a domestic flight.”
“The Biden administration has not only consciously refused to enforce immigration laws, but it has also developed an operation to secretly resettle illegal aliens into communities across Florida and the rest of the United States,” DeSantis said. “They’re doing this in the dark of night without any coordination with states, without any background checks, and without any efforts to initiate the legal process for their removal. I am glad Attorney General Moody is continuing our fight to hold the Biden administration accountable for its reckless disregard for immigration laws.”
In a lawsuit filed in September, Florida challenged the Biden administration’s catch-and-release border practices.
“As a result of this litigation, the federal government abandoned its ‘notice to report policy’ — which media reports characterized as ‘immigration by the honor system,’” DeSantis’s office wrote in a statement. “But the ‘Parole + Alternatives to Detention’ policy is yet another unlawful policy out the Biden administration.”
The complaint highlighted the millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that Florida spends providing public services and benefits to illegal immigrants. It called upon the Biden administration to provide financial relief and reverse its nondetention immigration policy.
On Monday, Florida also joined a multistate coalition led by Texas suing the Biden administration for reinstating an Obama-era program, called Central America Minors, that allows illegal immigrants who are minors to enter and remain in the U.S., bypassing laws established by Congress.
