Immigration & Border Security

14 AGs Sue Biden Administration Over Changing Asylum Policy

14 AGs Sue Biden Administration Over Changing Asylum Policy
Asylum seekers pass U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers while crossing an international bridge from Mexico into the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 17, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images
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Fourteen attorneys general, led by Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri, have sued the Biden administration for altering immigration policies established by Congress related to the immigration asylum process. They sued the same day Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a separate lawsuit against the administration in federal court in Texas over the same policy.

Attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Carolina joined the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana Lafayette Division.

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