On Monday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall appeared on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle" to lay out his lawsuit against the Biden administration for what he portrayed as a "dereliction of duty."
Marshall cited the flood of fentanyl coming over the U.S.-Mexico border and its threat to Alabama as the impetus for his lawsuit.
"We're not a border state," Marshall said. "But we seized eight pounds of fentanyl just last week with good efforts of law enforcement on the border. And as you've described many times on this show about the absolute siege that the cartel is imposing upon this country with clandestine drugs coming across our border.
"And we talk an awful lot about the deaths during COVID. But if you look at that same period of time between 18 and 45, we lost more people in this country to overdose deaths in that age group than we did to COVID. It's a significant problem. And yet, we have this administration now who doesn't want to deport drug traffickers, aggravated felons who come into our communities are here unlawfully, have violated our criminal laws."
Marshall said even with all that, the Biden administration doesn't want to report them and send them home. Marshall said he hopes the lawsuit is one of the ways of forcing this administration to do what Congress told it to do, to send these individuals back home.
Marshall accused the Biden administration of working against limiting illegal border crossing and neglecting to enforce laws passed by Congress.
"Yes, it's an absolute dereliction of duty," Marshall said. "You've seen this administration, on countless occasions, do everything they can to enhance border crossings, not to be able to secure our border, not to Border Control to be able to do their jobs.
"And the net result of that is not only our communities being less safe, but also we're allowing people that Congress has already identified as more likely to commit crimes in communities once they are released. And that's those that this Biden administration is not deporting and sending back to the countries where they came from."
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