Top immigration experts have sharply criticized the Biden administration’s plan to grant so-called “parole” status to illegal immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens.
The idea of parole originated in a memo written by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Since 2016 Classifying non-citizen relatives of U.S. military personnel.
A forthcoming executive order expanding this framework is expected to protect up to 500,000 illegal immigrants from deportation.
Former ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said the policy would further harm the United States and lead to an increase in marriage fraud because it focuses on spouses.
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“This administration has done nothing to secure the border. They’ve just been playing with whitewashing tactics,” Homan said. “This is just an invitation … for more illegal immigrants to cross the border and take advantage of the preferential treatment programs.”
Homan, who served in the Trump administration, has previously said he wanted to help establish a “historic deportation program” if the real estate mogul is elected president in November.
He told reporters that a parole system would give illegal immigrants an incentive to cross the southern border and “hide out” until a system that would grant amnesty was in place.
“We have record numbers of immigrants dying, record numbers of U.S. citizens dying, record numbers of terrorists crossing the border. So what’s your focus? Let’s implement more perks programs to attract more people. This is just a political ploy,” he said.
There are several requirements to qualify for this program, but the main ones are that your spouse must have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, be legally married to a U.S. citizen, and have a clean criminal record.
Joe Edlow, a former acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), added that federal estimates put the number of people on parole at more than 500,000, but that this is at best a bare minimum figure.
“from “In my view, I would never support or accept any further amnesty. There is no integrity to be had if we continue to tolerate those who so blatantly ignore our immigration laws,” said Edlow, who also served as chief counsel for USCIS.
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“They say it’s 500,000. I’ve heard estimates as high as 1.1 million. But ultimately we still don’t know what that means. [policy] It will eventually be included.”
In Edlow’s view, the Biden administration has essentially “suspended” immigration enforcement for four years, leaving the actual number of people allowed to remain in the U.S. on parole uncertain.
Another expert on the issue said the question of whether parole would allow 500,000 or more people to enter or remain in the U.S. would essentially create a 51st state.
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Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and a former college president in Wyoming, the 50th most populous state, suggested the Biden administration would essentially add a new population group between Wyoming and Vermont, the 49th most populous state.
“[The White House] “We have clearly outlined, and will soon make public, the details of what we believe will be the largest mass amnesty program in American history. This is not an exaggeration. It’s a fact.” Roberts says.
“Adding the entire state’s population to the more than 10 million undocumented immigrants already living here in Wyoming has even greater implications in fundamentally remaking America,” he said.
According to the 2020 census, Wyoming’s population was just over 576,000, while Vermont’s population was about 643,000.
The White House and ICE did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
