The Justice Department’s concerns about forum shopping and the appearance of partiality didn’t deter a federal district judge in Texas from keeping a case challenging a Biden administration immigration parole policy.
Texas and 20 other states sued the US Department of Homeland Security in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Victoria Division, which was a single-judge division staffed by Judge Drew B. Tipton. The suit challenged DHS’s implementation of a parole program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, under which 360,000 immigrants from those countries will be allowed into the US annually.
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