Now Florida is suing Biden's open border policy.

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The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its "illegal" catch-and-release policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday. The lawsuit says the administration's policies force Florida to "incur millions of dollars in expenses" as a result of migrants being relocated to the state. "This is absolutely a crisis, it's a crisis of the administration’s own making," DeSantis said during a late-morning press conference. "Yes, this is their primary responsibility, the federal government, but the states, we are the ones that are affected by this. And we have to be able to fight back. "We are entitled to know what’s going on here," DeSantis said. State Attorney General Ashley Moody accused the administration of aiding and abetting drug cartels who send people and drugs into the country. "Criminal cartels are having a field day. I can assure you, their profits are skyrocketing," Moody said. The suit was filed in the Pensacola Division of the Northern District of Florida. The defendants in the suit are the Department of Homeland Security, its component agencies, such as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, top officials from ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). "The Biden administration's illegal border policies cause Florida harm," the lawsuit states. "Many of the aliens illegally released by the Biden administration are arriving, or will arrive in Florida, harming the state's quasi-sovereign interests and forcing it to incur millions of dollars in expenses."