Mayorkas’s remarks came after a Group of 20 states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed suit in U.S. district court on Jan. 24 saying Biden’s expanded use of parole authority is unlawful. The plaintiffs say parole authority is meant to be used sparingly on a case-by-case basis, not as a way to an alternative visa system.

“This unlawful amnesty program, which will invite hundreds of thousands of aliens into the U.S. every year, will only make this immigration crisis drastically worse,” Paxton said in a statement.

Indeed, Biden is looking for an end run around Congress — again — and the courts are likely to slap him down — again. It’s a game Biden seems willing to play if only to get a few months’ respite from his major headache at the border.