TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 19, 2024

A federal judge in Louisiana has dismissed a lawsuit by 19 Republican-led states challenging a 2022 rule adopted by the Biden administration dealing with asylum claims and deportations at the southern border. U.S. District Judge David Joseph said that while policies adopted by the administration have led to a "dramatic increase in illegal aliens entering the United States through the southern border," the states challenging the rule lacked standing. He went on say that while the states may be able to show they have been harmed by the administration’s overall immigration policies, they could not prove they were economically harmed by this one specific rule. Reuters has more on the decision.