The Biden administration is threatening to sue yet another Republican-led state over its efforts to crack down on illegal immigration — after suing two other states over their respective anti-illegal immigration bills. The Department of Justice has written to Oklahoma Gov.
is preempted by federal law and violates the United States Constitution,' Principal Deputy Assistant AG Brian Boynton said in the letter to Oklahoma officials. 'Indeed, the Oklahoma law is similar to Texas’s Senate Bill 4, which has been preliminarily enjoined.' He argued that Congress has implemented a 'comprehensive scheme governing noncitizens’ entry and reentry into the United States, including penalties for unlawful entry and reentry.
Oklahoma responded to the DOJ threat days later, with AG Drummond promising to 'vigorously defend' the law if the administration sues, while blaming the Biden administration for the crisis at the southern border. 'Your misguided demands ignore that Oklahoma has not only the sovereign right, but also the solemn legal obligation, to protect its own borders and its own citizens,' Drummond said.
There, the state’s attorney general has also pledged to protect the state if any lawsuit would follow. 'We’re following the bill as it moves through the Legislature,' Lester Duhe, press secretary of Attorney General Liz Murrill told Fox News Digital. 'The Attorney General is committed to protecting the people of Louisiana from the dangers of illegal immigration, caused by Joe Biden’s open border policies.