West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is suing the Biden administration over a key immigration policy reversal he says has fueled a "devastating" flow in the deadly drug fentanyl. The state is suing over the reversal of the Trump-era "Remain-in-Mexico" policy, which kept migrants in Mexico while they awaited their hearings. "When they modified [Remain-in-Mexico], they utterly failed to consider what was going to happen to drug trafficking and didn’t even mention it in their documents," Morrisey told Fox News in an interview. More than 36,000 people died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2019, according to the CDC . It accuses the administration of having violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by not having considered the consequences of the policy on drug trafficking when it ended MPP.

Source: Fox News August 21, 2021 21:11 UTC