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Eleven states file motion to revive fight for Trump’s “public charge” immigration rule

The Epoch Times reports on the 11 states who have made a motion to revive the rule to prove that immigrants can financially support themselves in order to become American citizens or obtain permanent residency.

Eleven states filed a motion challenging the White House’s move to rescind a Trump-era policy that seeks to ensure that immigrants can financially support themselves in order to become American citizens or obtain permanent residency.

The motion, led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, is part of a lawsuit that his office filed on Feb. 3 against a recent immigration policy issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that halts most deportations for 100 days.

But the new motion—filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals—pertains to the “Public Charge Rule” after the Biden administration abandoned the defense of the law in the Supreme Court.

“It is unconscionable to overwhelm our infrastructure and immigration personnel when we are dealing with the health and economic devastation of the pandemic,” said Brnovich, a Republican, in a statement on March 11. “While regardless of one’s position on immigration reform, this reckless violation of federal law is only creating another national crisis and putting additional strains on our state and hardworking Arizona taxpayers.”

Brnovich’s lawsuit (pdf) said that “invalidation of the Public Charge Rule will impose injury on the states” to the tune of about “$1.01 billion in foregone savings in transfer payments for all states annually.”

The Supreme Court had agreed last month to hear challenges to the 2018 rule, but the current administration noted in its request that all parties agreed to ask the court to dismiss the case. Immigration advocacy groups, activists, and some Democrats said the rule was tantamount to a wealth test for immigrants seeking citizenship or a green card.

(Read the blather by the Democrats arguing against the case at the Epoch Times)

We need to stand up for the defense of law

We need to remain a society that respects the law, not the person. That is, we need to remain a society that does not have a nobility (be it Black Lies Matter, illegal aliens, or the Democrats’ old physical enforcement arm: the Ku Klux Klan). We need to treat everyone the same under the law.

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Representative Henry Cuellar stands against the Biden border

The Daily Mail reports on the actions taken by Representative Henry Cuellar in support of his community over the actions of Joe Biden.

Democrat congressman took the images at a holding center in south Texas to highlight the terrible conditions

400 children a day are pouring over the border and Republicans blame an Obama ‘amnesty’ for unaccompanied minors

It came as it emerged Joe Biden told an audience this week that the US needs an ‘unrelenting stream’ in ‘significant flows’ of new immigrants to bolster the economy

Border patrol officers tell MailOnline that they are so overwhelmed they are ‘quarantining’ the sick kids with police evidence tape

These shocking photos show child immigrants crammed inside cages and tiny rooms at a U.S. Government border facility – further highlighting the humanitarian crisis along America’s border with Mexico.

The images were taken at a holding center in Texas which can no longer accommodate large numbers of children and mothers traveling alone with their kids, forcing the federal government to open more facilities.

Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, took the photos on his camera phone to highlight the terrible conditions children are being kept in.

In one snap, taken during a tour of the Customs and Border Protection facility in South Texas, a large group of immigrants are locked in a wire mesh cage.

In another, tiny children run around a packed room and foil sheets – the only blankets they have – cover the concrete floors.

Up to 40 people a time – most appearing dirty and dejected – can be seen in filling rooms only large enough for ten.

This comes as the MailOnline learns that overworked border patrol officers struggling to cope with the huge influx are separating diseased child immigrants with make-shift quarantine methods – yellow evidence tape.

Don Ray, the Executive Director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, said border guards were simply running a strip of tape down the center of the detention facility to separate the children.

‘The diseased kids sit on one side and the healthy children on the other,’ he said. ‘Hardly the best way to go about things’.

Mr Ray went on to describe the relocation of immigrants as akin to the displacement of people following Hurricane Katrina.

‘You can’t have an influx of people like that without having an impact,’ he said.

(Read more at the Daily Mail)

I heard Cuellar say “I support the rule of law”

When I heard Cuellar say “I support the rule of law” when asked why he released the photos of the detention center, it occurred to me that there was at least one traditional Democrat who had not transitioned to socialist-Democrat.

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The largest portion of Americans stand up against Biden’s action at the border

Just The News shows us that Americans primarily blame Joe Biden for the crisis he created at the border.

Forty percent of respondents pointed to Biden when asked: “Which of the following do you believe is the most responsible for the current migration crisis at the southern border?”

Twenty-seven percent responded that Trump is to blame, while 12% put the blame on Congress, and the remaining 21% said they were unsure.

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have in recents weeks flocked to the border, following Biden’s cancelation of Trump executive orders that tightened U.S. immigration law, especially during the pandemic. Many of those coming to the border are unaccompanied minors, which has created additional problems at border detention facilities amid the pandemic.

Just the News Daily Poll

RMG Research

The survey of 1,200 Registered Voters was conducted by Scott Rasmussen using a mixed-mode approach from March 18-20, 2021, and had a margin of sampling error: +/- 2.8 percentage points.

Click here to see the poll’s cross-demographic tabulations.

Click here to see the poll’s methodology and sample demographics.

(Read more at Just The News)