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“These racial exclusions are patently unconstitutional, and the court should permanently enjoin their enforcement,”
a complaint about the Biden administration’s policy of excluding white farmers in its COVID-19 relief package said. “Doing so will promote equal rights under the law for all American citizens and promote efforts to stop racial discrimination, because ‘[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.’”
The lawsuit, which is backed by America First Legal Foundation, argues the exclusion of white farmers from the relief package is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The lawsuit alleges that Biden officials “have abandoned the pre-existing protections against the introduction into Texas and the United States of aliens infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during a pandemic.”
Under the administration of former President Donald Trump, officials issued a rule named Title 42 to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the United States and to deport any aliens that are caught.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at the time that invoking Title 42 was to prevent migrants introducing COVID-19 into the U.S.
But as soon as Biden took office, his administration quickly rolled back the use of Title 42. This allowed unaccompanied minors to stay in the country and decreased the number of families expelled under the order.
“I would argue and my organization would argue that that violates federal nondiscrimination rules,” he said. “We are suing to say that this lawless policy needs to be enjoined.”
Mr. Miller said the lawsuit was filed earlier Monday evening in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, formally by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller against U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack.
The massive plan has a $5 billion provision to compensate black farmers, which Mr. Miller argued is racial discrimination on its face.
“Millions of people were hurt by this pandemic, millions of people were hurt as a result of the closures, the shutdowns, the disruptions to our lives. And when it comes to getting financial aid, it shouldn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are,” he said.
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