October 21, 2024
The Lone Star State urged a Texas federal court to vacate a policy empowering asylum officers to approve asylum requests filed at the border, arguing the Biden administration overstepped by imbuing "mere employees" with a power reserved for appointed officials.
June 25, 2024
A Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that he got it right when he declined the federal government's attempt to end the state's suit challenging a Biden administration rule that broadens immigration officers' power over the asylum system, saying Texas did enough to withstand a motion to dismiss.
May 08, 2024
Texas is urging a federal judge to preserve its challenge to a Biden administration rule broadening immigration officers' power to expedite asylum applications, saying a recent decision in Louisiana throwing out nearly identical claims has no bearing on its case.
April 18, 2024
The Biden administration told a Texas federal judge Wednesday that the Lone Star state's lawsuit challenging a Biden administration rule broadening immigration officers' power to expedite asylum applications must be tossed in light of a recent decision in Louisiana throwing out nearly identical claims lodged by 19 Republican-led states.
February 07, 2024
A Texas federal judge has refused to toss Texas' lawsuit challenging a Biden administration rule that broadens immigration officers' power over the asylum system, saying Texas has sufficiently alleged that the rule will result in the state spending more on border security and incoming immigrants.
October 24, 2023
The state of Texas called on a federal judge to sustain its challenge to a Biden administration rule empowering asylum officers to decide asylum requests from individuals in expedited removal proceedings, maintaining it can show it's being injured by the policy and thus has standing to challenge it.
October 03, 2023
The Biden administration has called for the dismissal of Texas' legal challenge to broadening asylum officers' power over the asylum system, saying the policy couldn't have harmed the Lone Star State when it excludes asylum-seekers who intend to stay in Texas.
June 07, 2022
The Biden administration told a Louisiana federal judge that only the U.S. Supreme Court could determine whether the administration should be prevented from vesting asylum officers with more power over asylum requests, as requested by some states.
May 23, 2022
The federal government and Texas offered starkly different views Friday on whether a Texas federal judge can block President Joe Biden's new immigration policy vesting asylum officers with greater power over asylum requests, with the government arguing that only D.C. federal courts can decide such disputes.
May 19, 2022
A Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday denied the federal government's bid to transfer a lawsuit brought by a handful of states challenging President Joe Biden's policy vesting asylum officers with greater power over asylum.