You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handle show On Demand, on the Iheart Radio app.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

For someone coming into this country and trying to become legal, it's no small deal anymore. It's gotten

more and more difficult. So one of the things that people do is marry an American. That was

always the end-all, be-all. You just married an American and you were in good shape. You made an application.

First you'd get married and then you'd apply for a spousal residency or green card residency based on the fact you were married to an American.

And then the laws, and you could stay in this country until that happened.

And then policy changed and someone who married an American and is

applying for residency, legal residency, has to do it outside the country. They have to go back to

where they came from and apply at a consulate, an American consulate, and then get permission to come

in the United States, to be with

their spouse. And that was the policy, and I mean, here's the problem. You can see it sort of happening,

except it could be years that people would be waiting to get in legally. So what the Biden administration did was change it and said that spouses of U.S. citizens

would not have to leave the country, would be able to stay in the country, would be able to work,

and basically have their green card without having a green

card waiting for the actual approval.

And so that was the new policy under the Biden administration, which is now in place, except

U.S. District Judge Campbell Barker comes in and says, nope. 16 states, Republicans,

led by Republican attorneys generals, challenged the program that would benefit 500,000 people,

by the way, and another 50,000 of their kids. And here is the argument that the states used, because what do the states have to do with immigration?

Well, the state said that allowing those people in is costing us tens of millions of dollars annually for services such as health care, law enforcement, because of immigrants living in the states without legal status.

So there are illegal aliens living in our state that we have to pay for.

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