ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KINY) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has criticized the Biden administration over a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program that illegally creates pathways to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants each year. Joined a coalition of 20 suing states.
Led by the Texas Attorney General, the complaint was filed this week in the U.S. District Court in Texas.
The DHS program will establish a new visa system that will allow up to 360,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to be “paroled” into the United States each year.
Department-established programs do not meet established limiting factors.
The complaint states, “Congress directed that parole should only be granted on a case-by-case basis and, even then, only in cases of “urgent humanitarian grounds or serious public interest.”
“The ancestors of most Americans immigrated to America as immigrants, but this program is troubling. It will open more avenues and exacerbate our nation’s crisis of opioid addiction and fentanyl death.
Illegal immigration flows aren’t just affecting the bordering states of Texas and Alabama, and other destination states.
There are approximately 5,000 to 11,260 undocumented immigrants in Alaska, costing the state more than $72 million annually. Further arrivals will increase costs for the state’s health care system, the complaint says.
“Legal immigration played and continues to play an important role in the emergence of this great nation. It’s crossing borders,” said Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor. “His one-third of the million additional immigrants entering the country each year will strain the state’s health and assistance programs.”
