OPINION: Amnesty for DACA fails border security test
Former National Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Cueto provides perspective on the U.S.’s persistent migrant crisis and the surge of known ‘gotaways’ that have occurred under the Biden administration.
The U.S. nearly two-year-old border crisis continues unabated, yet Senate Democrats and some Republicans are foolishly resuming a push to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands—and perhaps millions—of people living in this country illegally. There is a simple test to determine if a given policy will, and amnesty—whether for DACA recipients or any other group—clearly fails the test. Illegal aliens coming to the U.S. generally want five things. They want to enter the country, stay here, work here, send money home, and bring family here. Policies that allow or facilitate any of those five elements encourage more illegal immigration. Policies that prevent those goals decrease illegal immigration. Let’s begin with illegally entry. Policies such as having a wall system, using the Remain in Mexico program, and requiring asylum seekers to request protection in the first safe country they enter reduce illegal entries. Illegal encounters at the border significantly decreased when the Trump administration implemented these policies. Yet, the Biden administration halted the wall construction and ended the Remain in Mexico program. Moreover, it actively encourages all illegal aliens crossing our border to apply for asylum, even though it knows full-well that most are ineligible for the once important protection benefit. The result? Over 5 million illegal alien entries since Biden took office.These and other ill-considered federal, state, and local policies have now so"normalized" illegal immigration as to almost erase the line between legal and illegal immigration. At the federal level, the Administration has: watered down asylum standards and ignored immigration benefit fraud; granted mass paroles; endlessly extended"Temporary" Protected Status to nationals of over a dozen countries; continued DACA; reduced the capacity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to locate, detain, and deport illegal aliens; and provided endless"due" process before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and in immigration court until an alien gets a green card. States and localities have created sanctuary jurisdictions in which public officials refuse to ask a person’s immigration status or to communicate with ICE. They further facilitate illegal aliens’ ability to stay longer in the U.S. by providing drivers licenses, which lead to additional downstream benefits, like bank accounts, housing assistance and voting rights. After a few years of enjoying these benefits, illegal aliens then argue they should not be deported because they have too many ties here in the U.S. If legislators want to stop illegal immigration and encourage legal immigration, stop giving them benefits that facilitate and prolong their ability to live here illegally. Working in the U.S. without work authorization has been illegal since 1986, when Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act at the recommendation of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. The commission, led by Democrat Rep. Barbara Jordan, had found work to be the number one pull factor of illegal immigration to America.
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