The Biden administration recently launched a plan to issue green cards to illegal immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.On parole“, which the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services calls “Protecting families together“program.
Some of you may be reading this and asking yourself, “So what? What's in a name?” Apparently, USCIS brass has never read Shakespeare and believes that simply giving a program a cute name will turn it into a program that the American public will support and that American courts will approve.
If the US wants to keep immigrants and their families together, it should encourage them to either remain in their home countries or immigrate to the US legally.
Whether you call it PIP or KFT, the program is in direct opposition to federal immigration laws. Immigration and Nationality ActThe law requires that foreign nationals seeking green cards must have lawfully entered the United States and maintained lawful status before applying for a green card.
There are some small exceptions to this rule, but they are very limited and clearly defined in the law. From the beginning, the KFT program has been illegal. Recently, a federal court issued an injunction temporarily stopping the issuance of green cards through the KFT program.
Furthermore, the KFT is unconstitutional; Separation of powersThe president does not have the power to unilaterally amend a law passed by Congress through executive order simply because he doesn't like it. Implementing a program like KFT would require Congress to pass new legislation, which is unlikely to happen. Border opponents have pleaded for amnesty for illegal immigrants for decades, but the idea is unpopular with the public, and despite multiple attempts, no amnesty bill has passed Congress.
But the real question is the intent behind the new name of this program. In reality, the conversion of PIP to KFT was a false name coined by illegal immigration activists.Family Separation” It’s an argument that has worked very well for them in the past.
“Parole” is government jargon that conveys very little; it suggests that certain immigrants will undergo some kind of bureaucratic process. “Keeping families together,” on the other hand, exudes positivity: Who doesn't want to keep their families together? At the same time, it suggests that those who separate families, even for legitimate reasons, are malicious.
These metaphors fall apart under real-world scrutiny. In societies governed by the rule of law, families can face separation. American families experience this when Uncle Jim or Aunt Jane is convicted of a felony, or a father is drafted into the military to serve the United States. Yet there is little media commentary to suggest that criminal law enforcement or national defense should be abandoned simply because they separate and make families unhappy.
In reality, immigrant families are often temporarily separated when they are arrested for entering the United States illegally, both for government administrative reasons and for the safety of the foreigners, but the separation is a direct result of the immigrants' attempts to break the law.
This is not punitive: illegal immigrants who are deported from the United States are not punished, but simply returned to their countries of origin, where they have the right to live and work without breaking any laws.
So, if you're even remotely intelligent, you're asking yourself, “Why is it America's responsibility to house illegal alien families together?” And the honest answer is, it's not. And the trade-off that requires most Americans to give up our secure border so that a tiny minority of citizens married to illegal immigrants can stay with their spouses is not just unfair, it's completely insane.
It may be tempting to say that an illegal immigrant marrying a U.S. citizen is a special case, or that it is cruel to Americans to separate illegal immigrants from those who are deported, but this argument is also based on impossible logic: if a U.S. citizen wants to live with his or her illegal immigrant spouse, he or she is free to leave the U.S. and do so in any foreign country where the spouse has a legal right of residence.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what anyone calls the KFT program, it's just not acceptable behavior. pardon It is clothed in a flimsy cloak of false legality, and it succeeds in only one thing: rewarding illegal aliens who enter the country illegally.
As the 1986 immigrant amnesty has repeatedly demonstrated, KFT and programs like it do not merely provide a reprieve for a small number of supposedly sympathetic immigrants with citizen family members; rather, they encourage more would-be illegal immigrants to cross the border and wait for the next amnesty.
If the United States wants to keep immigrants and their families together, it should encourage them to either remain in their home countries or migrate to the United States legally.
