Iowa AG Bird joins new immigration lawsuit, says Biden is allowing ‘aliens’ into US

Iowa joins 16 other states filing a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s parole in place policy, which allows spouses of U.S. citizens to remain in the country while their cases proceed.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced the lawsuit in a press release Friday, calling the policy an “amnesty program” that allows hundreds of thousands of “aliens” to enter the country illegally.

“The Biden-Harris program will release more than 500,000 aliens, allowing them to live and work in the country illegally,” Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a press release Friday.

She argues that the policy bypasses Congress to create a new immigration system, violating federal law and circumventing the requirement that immigrants in the U.S. illegally leave the country and wait for approval before they can reenter.

“In a last-ditch effort to buy votes in the November election, the Biden-Harris administration has created an illegal amnesty program that will fuel massive illegal immigration and allow unvetted aliens to live and work in the country,” said Attorney General Bird. “The Biden-Harris administration is already responsible for wide-open borders that have allowed drug cartels, human traffickers, and suspected terrorists to enter the country. Nearly 300,000 children have also disappeared at the border under their watch. This amnesty only further dismantles our nation’s immigration system. I am filing suit to keep our country safe and ensure the laws of our land are upheld.”

The lawsuit is led by Texas and Idaho, while Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming have signed on.

You can read the full lawsuit here.