President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security chief is now refusing to send home the more than 500,000 foreign workers he has imported via a “humanitarian” parole program that was supposedly limited to two years.
Instead of being sent home at the end of their two-year visas, the 530,000 economic migrants are being invited to use the many loopholes, exemptions, and lawsuits in migration law to stay working in the United States.
When they do stay, they will continue to make Americans poorer by minimizing pressure on employers to hire Americans at decent wages or to invest in wage-boosting workplace technology — while also extending their separation from their at-home families.
The policy change “gives the Biden administration the appearance that they’re looking tough when really they’re just doing the same things that they’ve been doing all along,” one critic told Breitbart News. He added:
It’s a very cynical move by the administration because it goes against everything that they’ve 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.
Friendly media outlets are helping by portraying the decision as a popular curb