Posted on 06/14/2024 9:03:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It seems Joe Biden has learned absolutely nothing from the border crisis. How else to explain this?
The Biden administration is making plans to announce one of the largest immigration relief programs in recent history, developing a policy that would offer legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without proper documents, four people familiar with the plans told CBS News.
A program being developed by White House officials would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, the sources said, requesting anonymity to talk about internal government plans.
The proposal, known as "Parole in Place," would also open up a pathway to permanent legal status and U.S. citizenship for some beneficiaries by removing an obstacle in U.S. law that prevents those who entered the U.S. illegally from obtaining green cards without leaving the country.
This new plan is set to be announced next Tuesday and CBS reports that some Democrats have already been invited to the White House for it. If it happens, it will be the biggest program for illegal immigrants since President Obama announced DACA. Up to 1.1 million migrants who have US spouses could be eligible. Somehow, leaking news of this on a Friday night doesn't suggest a lot of confidence on the White House's part that this will go over well.
Like everything else Biden has done with regard to the border, I can only assume this move is motivated by politics. But what exactly is the upside here? Is he trying to stem the flow of Hispanic voters to Trump? Perhaps he is trying to offer something to progressives who are upset with his recent move to block asylum claims. The ACLU has already sued the administration over that.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging President Biden’s decision to shut down the southern border to nearly all migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
The action is the first legal challenge to an order that the Biden administration hopes will decrease the number of illegal border crossings and neutralize one of the president’s most serious political vulnerabilities.
In a statement, the A.C.L.U. said the asylum ban, which went into effect one week ago, violated legal protections for people seeking protection in the United States.
The ACLU has a real chance of winning that case, meaning Biden's efforts to stop the gaming of the asylum system could be very short-lived.
What doesn't make any sense though is why Biden would do something which is practically guaranteed to make the border crisis worse. Biden came into office vowing to undo all of former President Trump's immigration actions. And once in office he followed through, issuing day one executive orders which were quickly seen in Central America as a sign that the border was opening up. The result is the worst border crisis in modern history, with more than 2 million migrants showing up in each of the last two years.
That crisis has become enough of an electoral problem for Biden that he a) actually went to the border for the first time in his life and b) has proposed several different solutions including the most recent asylum ban to bring the numbers under control. Given that history, why would Biden offer a pathway to citizenship at this moment when the number of migrants is finally declining a bit?
Yes, I understand this offer only applies to people who've been here a decade and who are married to US citizens. But what we see over and over is that generosity like this is almost certainly going to encourage more migration as people either get bad information from traffickers or simply decide to take their chances in the hope that 10 years from now they might get a similar offer.
Biden is already betting his reelection on Mexico being able to hold back the crowd from now until November. Now he's taking a risk to add to the pressure Mexico will be facing. Is the political upside worth that risk? What if Mexico decides they've had enough and the numbers spike again?
Even if this works out for him, Mexico's interest in doing Biden's dirty work probably won't last much beyond the election. Then what is he going to do? Is the plan really to live with four more years of this?
Part of me really wonders if Biden isn't laying the groundwork for a fresh disaster, one which will be unleashed on his successor after he's gone.
Getting ready for election day
Please! This is NOT “JOE!” This is Barry, Valerie, Eric, John Brennan and the rest of the Jihad Junta!!
> It would be good if this would apply to LEGAL IMIGRANTS and simply speed up the process to five years.<
I’m on your side about this. Once again the left wants to confuse the issue so they can add some kind of credibility to their specious argument. They want us to confuse people in your situation with invaders who just walk across the border and demand stuff from us.
The legal route takes too long, costs too much, and burdens those who want to do things the right way. The illegal route is being rewarded.
I don’t have a dog in your hunt. I’m married to a born and bred Oklahome gal. I just became an expat in Central America. The hoops I must jump through just for legal residency is quite a burden. It sickens me to watch OBiden destroy an already generous immigration system in a Cloward/Piven quest.
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What about the ones who do not WANT to be a US citizen?
My greatest fear is that Biden will pardon ALL illegals for the act of crossing the border illegally, thus making it far easier for them to obtain citizenship. Right behind that is a narrow “victory “ in both Houses and the Presidency, and on January 21 they grant citizenship to all of these people - the country is then over, as the Dems will have a permanent lock on power.
The democrats are in the poverty business the immigrants will just be in a poverty trap that the democrats make money off of until they are replaced.
"Biden Administration to Announce Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Next Week"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Defining the path to citizenship a legislative branch duty. POTUS can only pass or veto citizenship-related bills.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
The very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress is the swamp, always letting likewise corrupt OBiden get away with doing its unconstitutional work for it imo.
It's entirely up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to drain the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new Constitution-respecting Congress in November so that he won't be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term in office.
Geez Jo Jo, why the hell do the SOBs need a “path” when they’ve already got a superhighway to American free stuff. The bass turds got Mexican flags all over their vans and pickups, why the hell would they want America citizenship? Citizenship would mean they would have to pay taxes. You need to go get piss tested Jo Jo. You don’t seem to understand who the world works.
Biden Administration to Announce Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Next Week.
Show up and place name on ballot
you are not a king Pedo Joe!
that kind of action requires congress to act.
He’s going to issue an EO in August granting all criminal foreign invaders instant citizenship so they can vote for him. Why not? The Rat/RINO uniparty of treason seems to have no issue with the USA being run under a dictatorship. Trump makes a phone call and gets impeached. Biden arms the Taliban, finances terror via Iran, takes sides against our #1 ally in the middle east, opens the border to every enemy we have on this earth, he takes bribes, and he gets his butt kissed and pretty much told he can do anything he wants
Just by shipping millions of illegals to Wyoming and the Dakotas, then magically declaring them citizens, the Dems will flip 6 senate seats they will hold in perpetuity.
By strategically spreading the illegal plague to the right states, the Dems can rule the US as a one party nation forever.
They know this.
The GOP doesn’t work for Americans. Sorry.
“Your first step is back across the border.”
“The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging President Biden’s decision to shut down the southern border to nearly all migrants seeking asylum in the United States.”
HAHAHAHAAHAHHA. What a riot. The lies are just amazing. Shameless outright lies.
I thought matters regarding immigration required Congressional legislation, not an Executive Order.
how can this be???
During the few years living in Puerto Rico years ago, there was an organized scam going on whereby foreign nationals from the Caribbean and South America would visit PR or the American Virgin Islands, marry a local girl (US citizen), apply and receive a green card, dump the girl (often with a child by then) and disappear into the mass of NYC population.
Yeah. Yeah. You’re a citizen. Now vote for me as often as you can. Right. Go on! Polls are that way.
Biden and his thugs and goons will go down in history as traitors.
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