Federal judge strikes down Harris-Biden admin effort to grant ‘amnesty’ to illegal migrants married to US citizens

A Texas federal judge on Thursday struck down the Harris-Biden administration’s plan to fast track permanent residency for illegal migrants married to American citizens. 

US District Judge J. Campbell Barker’s ruling comes two months after he issued an order temporarily pausing the administration’s so-called “Parole in Place” program, which sought to grant work authorization, permanent residency and eventually citizenship to spouses and stepchildren of US citizens who have been in the country for at least 10 years.  

“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and is not in accordance with law,” Barker wrote in his 74-page ruling, adding that the policy “focuses on the wrong thing in identifying ‘significant public benefits’ — the benefits of aliens’ new legal status, rather than their presence in this country.”