Wyoming Joins 16 States Suing Over Biden Amnesty Plan

Wyoming is among a 16-state coalition led by Texas suing the Biden administration to stop a widespread amnesty plan for illegal immigrants.

President Joe Biden wants to "fast-track" citizenship for hundreds of thousands who’ve been living in the country illegally for more than 10.

The illegals in question must have married a U.S. citizen.

The Department of Homeland Security us using it's “Implementation of Keeping Families Together” to “process for certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens who are present in the United States without admission or parole.”

Granting a PIP status “will achieve the significant public benefit of promoting the unity and stability of families, increasing the economic prosperity of American communities, strengthening diplomatic relationships with partner countries in the region, reducing strain on limited U.S. government resources, and furthering national security, public safety, and border security objectives,” DHS says.

The coalition of states argues that the Biden-Harris administration is doing “an end-around the law” by ignoring the Constitution, violating the Administrative Procedure Act, and contravening existing federal law,

The suit was taken to the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas Tyler Division.

“Federal statute prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining most immigration benefits, such as permanent resident status, without first leaving the country and being admitted to re-enter and reside in the country lawfully,” the coalition said.

Instead of following current federal law, the program “effectively provides a new pathway to a green card and eventual citizenship of more thanmore than 1.3 million aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States to circumvent the processes established by Congress to apply for permanent residency – an opportunity that is not legally available to those present in the country unlawfully.”

PIP is also only supposed to be used “for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” not en masse, according to federal law the brief cites.

“Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the federal government is actively working to turn the United States into a nation without borders and a country without laws.

I will not let this happen,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.

“Biden’s new parole workaround unilaterally grants the opportunity for citizenship to unvetted aliens whose first act on American soil was to break our laws.

This violates the Constitution and actively worsens the illegal immigration disaster that is hurting Texas and our country.”

Joining Texas are the attorneys general of Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming.

These states argue that they will be...

 irreparably harmed by the PIP program,” citing estimated costs to taxpayers who fund a range of subsidized services that illegal foreign nationals receive. They include Medicaid, CHIP, TANF, uncompensated healthcare costs, law enforcement costs due to crime, public education, “unemployment, environmental harm and social disorder due to illegal immigration.