Donald Trump has promised to swiftly deport more than a million “parole” migrants who were smuggled into the U.S. by President Joe Biden's pro-immigration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
The parole promise comes as Trump slams Vice President Kamala Harris, who is preparing a televised border stop and is also expected to cloak her pro-immigration policies in vague language about law and order at the border.
'Get ready to go,' Trump says said Asked in an interview with Fox News what message he would send to the more than one million immigrants on parole, he added: “Especially if they're criminals, get ready to leave immediately, because they need to leave immediately.”
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The announcement is good news for American families who have lost wages, jobs, housing, social stability and opportunity because of Mayorkas's immigration policies, which are currently under legal challenge.
This is good news for millions of marginalized young Americans. Collapsed People who are out of the workforce and ignored by immigrant employment companies.
This is good news for U.S. tech. Enterprise They will sell more productivity-enhancing tools — software, robots, production lines — to CEOs who prefer to hire disposable immigrants instead of training Americans to run their automated workplaces.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks to The Associated Press in an interview at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump slammed Mayorkas' “parole pipeline,” which has imported at least 1.3 million poor immigrants from many countries even though they are “inadmissible” under Congress' 1990 immigration law.
Many of the job-seeking parolees arrive on commercial flights from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ukraine. These “CHNV” parolees receive two-year visas to take up jobs in the U.S. while being separated from their families in their home countries, much like President George W. Bush’s failed “willing worker” plan of 2001.
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Many other parolee migrants and their families cross the southern border with quasi-legal authorization through a mobile phone app called “CBP One.”
The result was a massive influx of hardworking, compliant workers, wage cuts, and rising rents into American towns and cities like Springfield, Ohio, and New York City.
“I would cancel this and get them out,” Trump told Fox News, adding:
The app is bad, but the worst thing is the planes. They were saying they were going to tighten the border a little bit. Planes were flying into the Midwest and everywhere, picking up illegal immigrants and people who shouldn't be in our country, because now they're all border states.
Trump's promise to deport immigrants who have been released on parole is an interesting shift in his rhetoric about immigration, which tends to focus on crime and chaos.
For example, on September 24, Trump Hit Kamala Harris announced during the campaign that she would soon visit the border for a televised event.
After almost four years, Border Patrol Chief Kamala Harris has decided, for political reasons, that it is time to take charge of our broken southern border. What she has waited so long to do is a shameful act that has allowed millions of people to enter our country from prisons, psychiatric hospitals and criminal gangs not only in South America but all over the world. Many of these people are terrorists, and the levels are unprecedented. She is trying to fool the public into thinking she has done a good job on the border, but in fact she is destroying the very fabric of our nation… They are now wreaking criminal havoc across the country. Every state is a border state! As she speaks, I hope everyone remembers the great damage she has done to our cities, towns and the country itself, and that only I can repair it.
Parole immigrants are especially attractive to employers because they know that they will not complain and will accept lower wages, as the immigrants fear they will be deported to their home countries when their two-year visas expire.
For example, David Barbe of Fourth Street Foods Showed Part of him Low-tech, Low productivityprovided photos of the labor-intensive food packaging production line to KDKA News and reported:
Barbe employs 1,000 people, including about 700 who work on the assembly line, almost all of whom are legal migrants with protected status from war-torn countries like Haiti, Liberia and Nepal. The hours are long and monotonous, and Barbe says he sees few local applicants.
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“Line assembly work is not a great job,” he added. “You might be putting lids on 60,000 sandwiches a day.”
But for immigrants like Wellington Riley, who fled political strife and poverty in Liberia, the job here was the opportunity of a lifetime.
In the same town, a high-tech glass factory employs 300 Americans. Shut down This is so that operations can be consolidated in Lancaster, Ohio.
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The wage-reduction shift from high-tech jobs to low-tech jobs has been underway since the 1990s, when Congress approved free trade agreements with Mexico and China, but the shift is now accelerating as Mayorkas increases the influx of low-cost immigrants to investors and minimizes pressure on companies to invest in high-tech manufacturing and services.
Parole immigration hurts America's blue-collar workers, but the various white-collar worker visa programs created since 1990 have helped push more than a million American college graduates out of good white-collar careers and salaries.
In early September, Mayorkas reiterated his desire to skew the U.S. labor market so that CEOs can have as many workers as they want without investing in machines or offering higher wages to hire American workers.
Let's look north to Canada. Canada looks at their market needs and says, “We need 700,000 foreign workers to meet our domestic labor demand.” So they build their visa regime for the year to accommodate current market conditions. And then they say, “We'll take in a million people.” This depends on the market.
we [in the United States] We are facing a problem with the cap on the number of work visas that was set in 1996. It's 2024. The world has changed. [the visas system] They are divided, they can't agree on a solution, and the country is suffering as a result.
It was at least the fourth time Mayorkas has praised Canada's strong immigration system, even as rising poverty, falling productivity and public anger are likely to force Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down by the fall of 2025.
The Cuban-born Mayorkas has repeatedly explained that he supports more immigration because of his immigrant parents, his compassion for immigrants and his support for “equality” between Americans and foreigners.
He also justifies accepting immigrants by claiming that his priorities take precedence over the law and that the “needs” of American businesses come first, regardless of whether they accept immigrants or not. Fee The impact on ordinary Americans, the impact on American children, or the reasonable objections of Americans.
