House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said President Joe Biden is rolling out a “welcome rug” at the U.S.-Mexico border and granting amnesty to more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
“By allowing inadmissible aliens to remain in the country indefinitely through a ‘parole’ ploy and receive generous taxpayer-funded benefits, this president is sending a clear message to those seeking to cross the border that not only is the door wide open, but the welcome rug is being thrown out,” Greene said in a statement.
President Biden’s amnesty will allow at least 550,000 illegal immigrants, including spouses and children of U.S. citizens, to obtain green cards and ultimately U.S. citizenship. In addition, the amnesty will provide work visas to illegal immigrants who have graduated from U.S. universities.
Greene said the amnesty “further legitimizes illegal entry into our country and is an affront to the rule of law and an affront to all Americans.”
To carry out the pardons, President Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are again using a little-known parole program that Republicans and critics say the administration is misusing to create a broad capture-and-release network.
“Though it was only meant to be used in extraordinary circumstances, Biden and Mayorkas have twisted parole law beyond recognition,” said Laura Reese of the Heritage Foundation.
This latest order from the White House will further encourage illegal immigration and marriage fraud. It also increases U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ backlog of more than 9 million cases and workload, resulting in even longer wait times for legitimate green card applicants. [Emphasis added]
Similarly, leaders of the Immigrant Accountability Project (IAP) said the amnesty would ultimately make marriage fraud more likely and called on Congress to halt the administration.
“Congress controls immigration policy and cannot allow this administration to continue to abuse parole and other tools to create its own immigration system,” the IAP executive said. I have written “Congress has an obligation to use its constitutional authority to repeal these amnesty funds and challenge them in court,” the memo states.
Biden’s liberal use of his parole powers has brought the number of immigrants living across the US awaiting deportation hearings to 7.4 million, but that figure only includes immigrants known to the federal government who have been released into the US while awaiting their hearings; it does not include illegal immigrants unknown to the government.
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