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A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has shut down a Biden-Harris administration “parole” program that effectively grants amnesty to illegal aliens.
The plan seeks to offer a pathway to citizenship for foreign nationals who entered the country illegally but married U.S. citizens.
The ruling is another blow to a liberal illegal immigration agenda that helped to seal Kamala Harris’s landslide election loss to Trump.
The policy would have placed up to 500,000 non-citizens on a fast track to citizenship, along with 50,000 stepchildren.
Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Campbell Barker said that the Biden-Harris admin’s program stretched his lawful authority “past its breaking point.”
“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and is not in accordance with law,” the judge wrote.
Judge Barker found that Biden and Harris had circumvented the law, which allows parole only in exceptional circumstances for newcomers at the border.
Instead, the White House sought to arbitrarily shield hundreds of thousands of migrants who have been living in the country illegally for 10 years.
The administration argued the policy would allow illegal immigrants married to Americans to complete the normal process of getting citizenship without leaving the United States and putting themselves at risk of being denied re-entry.