The head of Homeland Security under President Joe Biden's administration, Alejandro Mayorkas, has reportedly decided against repatriating over half a million foreign workers who were brought into the United States under a two-year "humanitarian" parole program.
Instead of returning to their home countries once their visas expire, these 530,000 economic migrants are being encouraged to exploit the various loopholes, exemptions, and legal challenges present in the US immigration law to prolong their stay and continue working in the country.
According to Breitbart, this decision is likely to have a detrimental impact on American workers by reducing the pressure on employers to offer decent wages or invest in technology that could enhance workplace productivity. It also prolongs the separation of these workers from their families back home.
Critics argue that this policy shift is a cynical move by the Biden administration, as it contradicts their public stance on immigration. One critic told Breitbart News, "Its a very cynical move by the administration because it goes against everything that theyve said in public that they support in an immigration system and it shows that these individuals are treated as nothing more than an [economic] commodity, not as individuals."
Media outlets perceived as friendly to the administration have reportedly portrayed this decision as a popular measure to curb migration. CBS News, for instance, ran a headline stating, "U.S. wont extend legal status for 530,000 migrants who arrived under Biden program."
The GOP-led House Committee on Homeland Security, however, views this as another attempt by the Biden administration to manipulate public perception. They tweeted, Another optics smokescreen from Biden & Harris. There are numerous other ways they could be allowed to stay.
Since taking office, Mayorkas has implemented several measures aimed at reducing border chaos. However, these measures still tacitly invite economic migrants to cross the border and can be easily reversed if former President Donald Trump loses the upcoming November election. For instance, Mayorkas continues to welcome approximately 1,000 new job-seekers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela each day, despite a brief pause in the program to address rampant cheating and labor smuggling.
The two-year parole program, which began in October 2022, allows Mayorkas to avoid upsetting his pro-migration allies by not deporting migrants whose visas expire before the election.
Pro-migration advocates are reportedly not protesting the apparent restrictions, as they anticipate Vice President Kamala Harris to expand the administration's pro-migration policies if she assumes the presidency.
Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has pledged to terminate the parole program to help Americans secure jobs with decent wages. Speaking to Fox News on September 25, Trump said, Get ready to leave. Especially quickly if theyre criminals, get ready to leave because youre going to be going out real fast.
Since the program's inception, Mayorkas has welcomed approximately 530,000 parole migrants, including 111,000 Cubans, 214,000 Haitians, 96,000 Nicaraguans, and nearly 121,000 Venezuelans. Thousands of these migrants now reside in Springfield, Ohio, a city overwhelmed by the arrival of 20,000 migrants from various countries.
The program has also been criticized for allowing Mayorkas's deputies to separate the 530,000 resident migrants from their families, a practice that drew widespread condemnation when implemented by the Trump administration during the deportation of illegal migrants.
Republicans have launched legal challenges against the program, but these have been dismissed by judges on the grounds that state governments cannot demonstrate that they suffer greater financial losses from the program than from illegal migration.
The parole program is seen as a tool for achieving equity by both progressives and Wall Street. Progressives, including Mayorkas, argue that migrants have an equity right to cross the U.S. border and live alongside Americans. However, they overlook the damage caused by migration to both Americans and foreigners. For instance, Mayorkas's visas have reportedly led to the departure of up to one-third of Haiti's teachers and many police officers, leaving the island in chaos.
Business groups, such as Mark Zuckerbergs FWD.us lobby group, view the program as a means to expand the U.S. economy, thereby increasing the equity held by investors in the consumer economy.
The decision not to extend the parole program was discreetly announced through an update of the program's legal conditions and reported by CBS News, a media outlet favored by Mayorkas.
Since 1990, the federal government has quietly pursued a policy of Extraction Migration to bolster the consumer economy after assisting investors in relocating the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.
This policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, and the influx of additional workers, graduates, consumers, and renters drives up stock values by suppressing American wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, increasing rents, and inflating real estate prices.
This obscure economic policy has reportedly disrupted the economic and civic feedback signals that underpin a stable economy and democracy. It has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in various business sectors, reduced Americans productivity and political influence, slowed high-tech innovation, shrunk trade, undermined civic solidarity, and incentivized government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate among low-status Americans.
Trump's campaign team recognizes the economic impact of migration. They stated in May that Bidens unpopular policy is flooding Americas labor pool with millions of low-wage illegal migrants who are directly attacking the wages and opportunities of hard-working Americans.
This covert economic policy also drains jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a surge of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers. Similar policies have harmed citizens and economies in Canada and the United Kingdom.
This colonialism-like policy has also damaged small nations and has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.
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