A district court judge has ruled that a Massachusetts group’s lawsuit against three federal agencies can proceed, in a rare but decisive victory for advocates of common-sense immigration reform.
At issue is the Biden administration’s failure to conduct an environmental analysis required by guidelines in the National Environmental Policy Act. Starting in 2021, Biden and Harris will open the border, allowing millions of foreign nationals to enter the interior.
Simply defined, federal agencies must assess the environmental impacts of their major activities. The guidelines, also known as the nation’s environmental Magna Carta, are intended to ensure that federal decisions affecting the environment are made in good faith and with the full perspective of the public. For this reason, federal agencies must study the effects of open border immigration practices and allow public comment before enacting laws that could dramatically increase populations and negatively impact the natural environment. There is a need.
In a court hearing a few weeks ago, Julie Axelrod, director of litigation at the Center for Immigration Studies, argued that uncontrolled immigration and the resulting massive population growth and environmental destruction are negatively impacting American lives. succeeded in making the claim.
Two witnesses, former Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan and former Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott, explained how the border wall and the “remain in Mexico” policy were two key pillars of the border security strategy. He then explained how important that sudden end was. The inauguration of the Biden administration has precipitated the ongoing border crisis.
Multiple amnesty and border security laws, loosely enforced at best and criminally ignored at worst, have left tens of millions of people undocumented in the more than 60 years since President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act. We have allowed residents to enter the country. . The Department of Homeland Security has never conducted legally required environmental impact studies before implementing immigration policies.
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, an experienced immigration attorney, knows his agency must follow guidelines, but like many in the Biden administration, he is undaunted by established law. I didn’t obey.
More than 12,000 people are waiting to be processed in a makeshift camp under the Del Rio Bridge in Texas, as politically correct environmental activists question whether opening borders will harm limited natural resources. You need to see images of Haitians. Similar scenes of illegal aliens massing toward the border or getting off buses in major cities have played out during Biden’s term.
In 2021, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality estimated that each border crosser leaves approximately 6 to 8 pounds of trash in the desert during their journey. Add in three years of granting permits to millions of undocumented immigrants, including from other border states, and the total amount of trash is “staggering,” said report co-author Bruce Westerman. It is said to become.
As Axelrod pointed out, even though illegal aliens have littered the Southwest with tons of trash, the Sierra Club and other prominent environmental organizations have maintained their original mission of protecting and conserving flora and fauna. I have abandoned what I should have done.
This legal victory is the first step in ensuring Americans’ right to protect themselves from Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ reckless and illegal immigration policies. The lawsuit will now proceed to determine appropriate remedies, with briefings scheduled for later this year.
Axelrod called for future public engagement and public hearings to assess how immigration impacts local communities. Urban sprawl and pressure on public services such as schools, hospitals, and police departments are most obvious, draining local budgets.
It is an uphill climb to overcome years of criminal negligence that destroys sovereignty, but the difficult journey has begun.
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Copyright 2024 Joe Guzzardi, distributed by Cagle Cartoons Newspaper Syndicate.
Joe Guzzardi is an analyst at the Institute for Healthy Public Policy and has been writing about immigration for more than 30 years. To contact him, [email protected].
