Biden gives amnesty to illegal-alien spouses of citizens
We’ve been told that it was going to happen, and here it is:
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., vowed to investigate President Biden’s “lawless plans for amnesty” and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ “ongoing abuse of parole authority” hours after the administration unveiled new immigration rules shielding migrant spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation.
“Amnesty for illegal aliens is absolutely unacceptable,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Mayorkas on Tuesday morning. “It is a lure that will drive millions more illegal immigrants to flood across our southern border. It is a slap in the face to U.S. taxpayers. And it is totally unfair to immigrants who entered the U.S. legally. But apparently, you and President Biden now plan to do just that.”
Hawley called for Mayorkas to “immediately end” the new policy and said the administration “baldly defied” current immigration law, which permits parole for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. …
Hawley warned the administration’s new amnesty proposal “is transparently an attempt to curry favor with far-left activist groups, who opposed even President Biden’s toothless rhetoric about border security,” and that “the far left always gets what it wants from this administration—amnesty and a functionally open border.”
The non-citizen spouses must have lived in the US for 10 years or more, which sounds like a somewhat limiting factor. However, I think it’s a case of the camel getting its nose into the tent, in that once this is implemented it can be expanded to include those who have been here a lot less than ten years. Or perhaps it won’t be properly enforced in the first place if it follows the path of so many of our other rules about entry into this country.
It also seems to me that this announcement can be looked at as an expansion of DACA, the policy resulting from an executive action of Obama’s in 2012. Trump tried to end DACA and there were a number of court challenges, but the policy is still in place. DACA didn’t involve spouses, and this new policy of Biden’s does. My guess is that this is another case of Biden trying to placate the left flank of his party – but they always want more.
I wish someone would ask Mayorkas how they are going to determine how long someone has been here, in view of the fact that most illegal aliens have at one time or another used counterfeit documents for various purposes.
Sgt. Joe Friday:
I doubt they care about proper enforcement of the regulations.
It’s also astonishing that an executive order can’t be undone by a different executive if a judge doesn’t want it to be. More such judges and such rulings, and we’ll start ignoring them, and then where will they and we be? (The Left of course threatens “loss of legitimacy” every time a decision doesn’t go their way.)
A minor point
https://peterlance.com/wordpress/?p=1182
There was one texas judge that was willing to challenge daca andrew hanen
The 5th circuit held the pause but others did not
Trump was dinged for not observing the administrative procedures act
Meanwhile, my daughter-in-law just got her green card after waiting almost three years. She entered the country legally, applied for the card legally, married my American citizen son legally and for love, and gave birth to their American citizen baby. The INS had no particular objection to giving her the card, or if it did, it never told her what it was. It just didn’t feel like giving her a green card. It felt like twiddling its thumbs and ignoring her application, and that’s what it did for years, years in which she couldn’t work, couldn’t leave the US to visit her family at home (or more precisely, she could have left, but the U.S. wouldn’t have let her back in), and felt she was living in limbo. Finally my son and daughter-in-law hired a new lawyer who filed for a writ of mandamus — that is, a lawsuit asking the court to order the INS to follow its own rules and do what it’s legally required to do. Bingo, she had the card in a few weeks. Meanwhile, all that time, untold hordes of people from her country have been swarming illegally over the border and being welcomed with open arms. My daughter-in-law was punished for trying to do it right. It’s really hard not to be bitter, and it has disillusioned her about her new country. How does it possibly make sense to make it so hard and painful and expensive for people to enter legally while positively inviting people to come in illegally?
Congratulations to your son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Whatsit, and I hope she sticks with us. So many of us agree that what’s being done is wrong.
Can Biden do this legally?
I’m sure the GOP will get on this in no time. They’ll start with a sternly worded letter, no doubt.
Mrs Whatsit
Because they benefit no one except themselves they went through hell. Now if they were future potential dem voters, beholden to the party for their citizenship, the process would have been a breeze.
He might run into some trouble with a judge in texas or tennessee
“Can Biden do this legally?”
I’m far beyond the point where I concluded that NOTHING “Biden” does is legal.
(And “he”’s perfectly happy with that. Pleased as punch, in fact. Boasts about it…. Shoves it into the country’s face, as it were. And gets away with it…because “he”’s NOT TRUMP.)
Related (just one of myriads…)
“Federal Judge Blocks Biden’s Rewrite Of Title IX”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-blocks-bidens-rewrite-title-ix
More noise by Biden that I don’t think will have a notable effect. The numbers that I’ve seen thrown around for this care only several hundred thousand, while the number of illegals is many times that. I suspect it’s primarily the White House’s attempt to both look like it’s doing something about immigration while also making it’s own base happy.
Let’s not forget the treachery of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who bent himself into pretzels to claim that there was a procedure error in blocking the Obama executive order. Thanks, W.
and kennedy did the same on obergefell, the socalled same sex marriage decision, and in a decades time, we come to dr ethan haim’s at texas children’s hospital
being targeted for ‘doing no harm’ with regards to Children,
https://nypost.com/2024/06/07/us-news/doctor-who-blew-whistle-on-texas-hospitals-gender-affirming-care-for-kids-charged-by-doj/
thats not what ‘love conquers hate’meant, that what it looks like,
as someone whose family had to wait 8 and 12 years respectively to get out of a communist hellhole, I take umbridge at shambling or whoever his puppet master’s little sleight of hands
The EO to protect illegals who have married and had kids from deportation is weapons grade persuasion, for this group is the very last group up for deportation. It is an attempt to change the subject by starting a discussion about breaking up families, which is good persuasion.
How much it will help Dementia Hitler is anyone’s guess, as it may very well be buried in all the other noise.
If I were to do deportations, I would do it by time in country, last in, first out, and work your way back 4 years to the beginning of the current wave as Job 1. Job 2 will go after those in during Trump. Job 3 will go after those during O’Bama, which would be covered by the EO. By the time we get there, we will have deported 15 – 25 million illegals. Cheers –