Sixteen states, including Idaho, on Friday filed a suit in federal court to block the Biden administration’s program that protects long-term undocumented people married to U.S. citizens from deportation and grants them a pathway to citizenship.
According to the Idaho Capital Sun, states in the suit argue that the Department of Homeland Security unlawfully created the program and that those 16 states will be financially harmed by its implementation.
Applications for the program, known as a parole in place, opened this week.
The program is a one-time action and it applies to long-term undocumented people married to a U.S. citizen.
It’s estimated that roughly 500,000 noncitizen spouses and their children will be eligible to apply for a lawful permanent residence.
