TEXAS v. UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Civil Action No. 6:23-CV-00007.

722 F.Supp.3d 688 (2024)

The State of TEXAS; the State of Alabama; the State of Alaska; the State of Arkansas; the State of Florida; the State of Idaho; the State of Iowa; the State of Kansas; the Commonwealth of Kentucky; the State of Louisiana; the State of Mississippi; the State of Missouri; the State of Montana; the State of Nebraska; the State of Ohio; the State of Oklahoma; the State of South Carolina; the State of Tennessee; the State of Utah; the State of West Virginia; and the State of Wyoming, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, in his official capacity; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Ur Jaddou, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in her official capacity; U.S. Customs & Border Protection; Troy Miller, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs & Border Protection, in his official capacity; U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement; and Tae Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, in his official capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Victoria Division.

Signed March 8, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund Gerard LaCour, Jr., Office of the Alabama Attorney General Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Alabama.

Christopher Robison, State of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Alaska.

Nicholas J. Bronni, Arkansas Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Arkansas.

James H. Percival, Florida Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Florida.

James E. M. Craig, Idaho Office of the Attorney General Civil Litigation and Constitutional Defense, Boise, ID, David M.S. Dewhirst, Idaho Attorney General's Office Idaho Attorney General's Office, Boise, ID, Lincoln Davis Wilson, Alliance Defending Freedom, Washington, DC, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Idaho.

Eric H. Wessan, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff State of Iowa.

Jesse Burris, Kansas Attorney General, Topeka, KS, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Kansas.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Marc Manley, Pro Hac Vice, Kentucky Office of Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, for Plaintiff Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Louisiana's Office of the Attorney General, Baton Rouge, LA, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Louisiana.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Justin L. Matheny, Mississippi Attorney General, Jackson, MS, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Mississippi.

Charles F. Capps, Office of The Missouri Attorney General Office of Missouri Attorney General, St. Louis, MO, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Joshua M. Divine, Office of the Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Maria Lanahan, Office of the Missouri Attorney General, Saint Louis, MO, for Plaintiff State of Missouri.

Christian B. Corrigan, Montana Attorney General's Office Office of the Attorney General, Helena, MT, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Montana.

Eric Hamilton, Ass't Atty Gen, Lincoln, NE, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Nebraska.

Benjamin M. Flowers, Ashbrook Byrne Kresge LLC, Columbus, OH, Mathura Sridharan, Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, OH, Sylvia May Mailman, Ohio Attorney General, Cleveland, OH, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Ohio.

Thomas T. Hydrick, Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of South Carolina.

Clark Lassiter Hildabrand, Whitney D. Hermandorfer, Office of the Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter, Nashville, TN, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Tennessee.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Melissa A. Holyoak, Office of the Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff State of Utah.

Lindsay S. See, Michael Ray Williams, West Virginia Attorney General's Office, Charleston, WV, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of West Virginia.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, Ryan Schelhaas, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY, for Plaintiff State of Wyoming.

Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Luis Armando Suarez, M. David Bryant, Jr., Ryan Daniel Walters, Aaron Francis Reitz, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Law Enforcement Defense Division, Austin, TX, Gene Patrick Hamilton, James K. Rogers, America First Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Texas.

Garry Michael Gaskins, II, Office of Oklahoma Attorney General, Oklahoma City, OK, Jonathan Franklin Mitchell, Mitchell Law PLLC, Austin, TX, Ryan Daniel Walters, Office of the Texas Attorney General, Special Litigation Division, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff State of Oklahoma.

Daniel Hatoum, Tamara Frances Goodlette, Texas Civil Rights Project, Alamo, TX, Esther Hsiao-In Sung, Jane Petersen Bentrott, Karen C. Tumlin, Justice Action Center, Los Angeles, CA, Ahilan T. Arulanantham, Monika Y. Langarica, Talia Inlender, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, Vanessa Rivas-Bernardy, Brandon Galli-Graves, Raices, Litigation, San Antonio, TX, Kathleen Kaufmann Shih, Quinn Emanuel et al., Houston, TX, Lauren Michel Wilfong, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Pasadena, CA, for Intervenor Defendants Valerie Laveus, Francis Arauz, Paul Zito, Kate Sugarman, Nan Langowitz, German Cadenas.

Daniel Hatoum, Tamara Frances Goodlette, Texas Civil Rights Project, Alamo, TX, Esther Hsiao-In Sung, Jane Petersen Bentrott, Karen C. Tumlin, Justice Action Center, Los Angeles, CA, Monika Y. Langarica, Talia Inlender, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, Vanessa Rivas-Bernardy, Brandon Galli-Graves, Raices, Litigation, San Antonio, TX, Kathleen Kaufmann Shih, Quinn Emanuel et al., Houston, TX, Lauren Michel Wilfong, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Pasadena, CA, for Intervenor Defendant Eric Sype.

Erez Reuveni, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Brian Christopher Ward, U.S. Dept. of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Elissa P. Fudim, DOJ-Civ, Civil Division Washington, DC, Erin Ryan, Office of Immigration Litigation — District Courts Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants.

Matt A. Crapo, Immigration Reform Law Institute, Washington, DC, for Amicus Immigration Reform Law Institute 25 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 335 Washington, DC 20001 (202) 232-5590.

Brandon R. Gould, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Stan Veuger, Tara Watson, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Leah Boustan.

Ilya Somin, Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Professor Ilya Somin.

Stephen J. Yanni, New York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY, for Amicus Proposed Amici States.

Matthew Price, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

Michael Kippins, Lawyers for Civil Rights, Boston, MA, for Amicus Haitian-Americans United, Inc.

Amelia Temple Redwood Starr, Edmund Polubinski, III, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Legal Information Network for Ukraine.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

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