Anti-immigrant groups allegeBidenadministration violated environmental laws in halting and attempting to reverse construction of southern US border wall obtained a legal victory in a federal lawsuit against Other immigration policies of former President Donald Trump.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday that a lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Immigration Reform Coalition against his three federal agencies can at least partially proceed.
Judge Trevor McFadden dismissed two of his 11 claims for the Boston-area group, but said that a federal district court had jurisdiction to hear the case. Stated.
The coalition says theBiden administrationwill halt construction of the wall, end President Trump's controversial "stay in Mexico" asylum process, and help Afghans, Central Americans, and alleging that it violated federal environmental law in expanding its refugee program for refugees. Relaxed certain policies for border guards and immigration enforcement agencies, among other population and other measures.
The Massachusetts Coalition, which advocates reducing immigration for environmental reasons, states that the U.S. Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security should conduct environmental impact analyzes before implementing immigration law changes. says it was. National Environmental Policy Act.
"If NEPA applies to government policy, it should apply to federal policy that induces population growth," the organization said in its complaint. “When the federal government chooses to generate population growth through immigration, it makes decisions that have significant and foreseeable environmental impacts.”
Arizona Rancher Stephen Chance-Smith, who is also a member of the drug cartels, says migrants across the southern border litter, set fires, and otherwise harm their lands. The presence of members and human smugglers is also worrying.
"Life at the border during mass migration is extremely stressful," the lawsuit states.
Judge McFadden said the Department of Homeland Security instruction manuals violated environmental laws and that the Biden administration had a "planned" environment for immigration-related actions.
Spokespeople for the three agencies named in the lawsuit did not respond Wednesday to emails seeking comment.
The Center for Immigration Studies, a DC-based group that filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Massachusetts Union alleging immigration decline, welcomed the decision.
“The policies unilaterally implemented by the Biden administration have encouraged more than one million foreigners to enter and settle in the United States, a typical type NEPA has done. Action. Population concerns should apply," Julie Axelrod, the Center's director of litigation, said in a statement Tuesday.
Biden halted construction of the border wall upon his 2021 inauguration, but allowed work in very limited circumstances.
Earlier this month, his administration said asylum seekers would wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court after the Supreme Court ruled in June that they could. formally ended the Trump-era “stay in Mexico” policy that called for
