Open border zealotry had Democratic lawmakers pushing President Joe Biden for one last move toward amnesty in spite of the will of the voters.
“…the window to secure and finalize your administration’s policies is closing rapidly.”
Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, language games were leveraged to the max as alternate identifiers like parolees were attached to illegal aliens to temper the crisis at the southern border. Elsewhere, executive action afforded foreign nationals legal presence in the United States through Temporary Protected Status, a policy senators urged the lame-duck president to further on his way out.
“As Senators who represent diverse states across our nation and who collectively represent millions of immigrant families, we write to express our deep concern about the threat the incoming administration poses to immigrants in our communities,” stated a letter penned in December, doomsaying over the mass deportation plans of President-elect Donald Trump.
Signatories included Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico and Alex Padilla of California in pitching for TPS extensions, DACA protections and expediency on asylum claims.
Dating back to the ’90s, the TPS program presently allows foreign nationals from 17 different countries to be granted said status for protection from deportation. Those nations included Afghanistan, Venezuela, and the uproar-inducing overrun of Springfield, Ohio by Haitians.
“We write now because the window to secure and finalize your administration’s policies is closing rapidly. We urge you to act decisively between now and the inauguration of the President-elect to complete the important work of the past four years and protect immigrant families,” continued the letter that insisted, “Mass deportations would jeopardize the safety and security of millions of mixed-status families, sow deep distrust and fear in the communities we represent, and destabilize the U.S. economy. While we support common-sense steps to better secure our borders and improve border processing, we will continue to oppose any policies that contradict our nation’s core values.”
Instead of acknowledging the negative economic and security impacts felt by communities where politicians had allowed assimilation adverse masses to relocate, sowing discord and stoking fear, the senators sought pity in highlighting one of their favored spending excuses, Ukraine, along with other struggling nations.
“Worsening crises in countries across the world, including Ukraine, Nicaragua, and eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, continue to endanger hundreds of thousands, underscoring the need for TPS,” stated the letter that suggested Deferred Enforced Departure where TPS would not suffice.
Prior to Indiana voters naming him senator-elect, then-Rep. Jim Banks had introduced legislation to require congressional action on TPS dubbed the End Executive Branch Amnesty Act countering the narrative pushed by the Democrats.
“Small towns across our nation like Logansport, Indiana, are bearing the brunt of the Biden-Harris White House’s reckless open border policies. It’s time for Congress to secure our border once and for all,” said Banks.
Noting that Logansport had felt the impact of about 5,000 Haitians arriving in the town of around 18,000 residents, the lawmaker asserted, “The Biden-Harris administration abused the laws on the books to grant millions of non-citizens legal status. Republicans must restore our immigration system to Congress’s original intent and ensure parole is only used as a last-ditch humanitarian measure to help foreign nationals in times of catastrophe.”
“Over the past three years, millions of foreigners have made the dangerous and illegal journey across our southern border because of the Biden-Harris administration’s promise of future amnesty. Democrats broke our immigration system, and my bill would help fix it by ending mass parole and other magnets drawing people here illegally,” added Banks.
In addition to Trump’s calls for mass deportation and previous aims of drawing down TPS, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance described that status to NewsNation as a “government edict saying that you’re not allowed to deport people anymore,” and that “I’d revoke [TPS] and I’d bring [the migrants] back to their country.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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