Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting his third immigration policy reset in just nine months, announcing new troop deployments to the border and faster deportation of families, coupled with an expanded amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and more generous work permits to other illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
The rollout comes as he faces down yet another wave of unprecedented border chaos, with Border Patrol agents reportedly arresting nearly 7,000 migrants a day in September.
Those sticks, however, were matched with a new crop of carrots for migrants that have already made it to the U.S. Mr. Mayorkas expanded his grant of Temporary Protected Status — a deportation amnesty — to nearly 500,000 more migrants from Venezuela, most of them unauthorized immigrants who arrived on President Biden’s watch.
Rob Law, director of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute, said this latest reset won’t fare any better. The result was a drop in arrest rates in January and February. March and April saw the numbers tick up again, sparking Mr. Mayorkas’s changes in May that were timed to the end of the Title 42 pandemic border policy. Illegal crossing rates again dropped, before surging back to today’s near-record rates.
TPS grants them an 18-month stay of deportation and, perhaps more important to the migrants, it entitles them to work permits.
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