Posted on 08/20/2019 6:31:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump will tighten rules for a federal parole program that has allowed thousands of foreign nationals, who would otherwise be deemed inadmissible to the United States, to take jobs in the U.S. An order issued this week by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) gives guidance to federal adjudicators to only consider providing foreign nationals who are paroled into the country with work permits after “all relevant factors” are considered “on a case-by-case basis.”
“USCIS will only consider employment authorization for parolees when, based on the facts and circumstances of each individual case, USCIS finds that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted,” USCIS officials wrote in a release.
The rule is set to slow down the ongoing fast-tracking of work permits for foreign nationals arriving in the U.S. — allowing thousands of migrants to take U.S. jobs while they await court hearings.
“Directly addressing loopholes that encourage the exploitation of our immigration system is the only way forward,” Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement.
“This decision is in response to the national emergency at the southern border where foreign nationals are entering the United States illegally, as well as based on a review of USCIS adjudicatory practices over the past few years,” Cuccinelli said of the new rule.
Between October 2017 and September 2018, the Trump administration gave nearly 18,000 work permits to foreign nationals paroled into the U.S. on urgent humanitarian grounds. The year before, the Obama and Trump administrations authorized work permits for nearly 60,000 foreign nationals.
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Why was this not done first day?
“USCIS will only consider employment authorization for parolees when, based on the facts and circumstances of each individual case, USCIS finds that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted,” USCIS officials wrote in a release.
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Hopefully, favorable decisions will be somewhere between rare and non-existent.
It’s a good move, but the thing to cut is welfare and food stamps.
Cut the gravy train and they’ll self-deport soon enough.
Does this apply to H-1B’s? It sure needs to.
See this post about reducing immigrants who would become a “public charge.”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3771432/posts
It’s a start.
It was a disaster.
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