Biden’s DHS Nominee Alejandro Mayorkas Promises to Help Pass an Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
President-elect Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary nominee, Alejandro Mayorkas, says he “would be privileged” to help congressional Democrats and Republicans pass an amnesty for the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States.
During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Mayorkas said he is onboard with Biden’s plans to provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens so long as they are in the U.S. by January 1, 2021.
“I would be privileged to work with Congress to pass immigration reform legislation that provides that path and provides a permanent solution to what is clearly a broken system,” Mayorkas said when asked about the plan.
As part of Biden’s plan, millions of illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would be able to immediately obtain green cards, as well as foreign nationals who are in the U.S. on Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Mayorkas, as former head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the Obama administration, said he “was proud to implement” the DACA program despite its spurring a rush to the southern border.
“President-Elect Biden also has committed to reinstating the DACA program that I was proud to implement when I was head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and President-Elect Biden also has committed to following the law and applying Temporary Protected Status … to populations who qualify for it by reason of the country conditions in their nations of origin,” Mayorkas said.
“I look forward to executing the president’s commitments should I have the honor of serving as the secretary of Homeland Security,” Mayorkas continued.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who has since said he will oppose Mayorkas’ nomination, noted the negative jobs and wage impact that an amnesty would likely have on the roughly 18 million Americans who remain jobless and another 6.2 million who are underemployed. Their economic opportunities are crushed when cheaper, foreign labor in the labor market is readily available to employers.
Mayorkas also deferred to Biden’s plan which seeks to end President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that has drastically reduced asylum fraud and kept illegal immigration at bay.
“I would execute on that commitment should I have the privilege of serving,” Mayorkas said when asked if he would throw out the Remain in Mexico policy as Biden has proposed.
Biden’s amnesty plan will include a litany of giveaways to big business, the open borders lobby, and Democrats who are looking to secure their permanent political majority by importing voters. The plan includes:
- Amnesty with an eight-year path to American citizenship
- Green cards for DACA illegal aliens and TPS beneficiaries
- A 700 percent increase in the refugee resettlement program
- Reinstatment of the Central American Minors (CAM) program
- Funding for technology mechanisms at the U.S.-Mexico border
- Work permits for the family members of H-1B and H-2B visa holders
- Additional employment-based and chain migration visas
- Fast-track to the U.S. for Central American family members of citizens
Already, Biden’s plan has resulted in a nearly 9,000-strong caravan of migrants vowing to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum. Mayorkas would not turn down potentially allowing many of the caravan migrants into the country during the confirmation hearing.
“President-elect Biden and people who will be joining us in the incoming administration have spoken about the fact that there’s a commitment to follow our asylum laws, to enforce our asylum laws, and that means to provide humanitarian relief for those individuals who qualify for it under the law,” Mayorkas said when asked to send a message to the caravan migrants.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Marco Rubio: No Amnesty Until All Americans Can Get Good Jobs
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has given a thumbs-down to President-elect Joseph Biden’s draft amnesty, saying that “everyone” must first have a chance to get a good job in a post-coronavirus economy.
“Before we deal with immigration, we need to deal with COVID, make sure everyone has the chance to find a good job, and confront the threat from China,” Rubio said.
He added:
America should always welcome immigrants who want to become Americans. But we need laws that decide who and how many people can come here, and those laws must be followed and enforced. There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.
Millions of Americans have lost jobs in the coronavirus crash, and many millions of additional Americans live in poverty because of low wages.
Biden’s draft amnesty would provide citizenship to millions of illegals who can claim they were in the United States on January 1, 2021. It would also allow an unlimited inflow of foreign graduates into the Fortune 500 white-collar jobs that are needed by U.S. graduates.
Rubio’s intervention is important.
In 2013, Democrats delayed their “Gang of Eight” amnesty until they persuaded Rubio to join the negotiation. Subsequently, Rubio withdrew from the Gang of Eight push. His withdrawal helped GOP Majority Leader John Boehner block House passage of the amnesty.
Many polls strongly support Rubio’s perspective.
The polls show Americans’ deep and broad opposition to cheap labor migration — and to the inflow of temporary contract workers, into the jobs needed by young and old Americans.
The multi-racial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based opposition to cheap labor migration co-exists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media magnification of many skewed polls and articles that still push the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
The public’s mixed response is reasonable. Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
On September 10, the Washington Post reported on poverty in high-migration, low-wage Florida:
After the power went out at the Star [hotel], Rose’s family spent the last of their savings on a week’s stay at the Magic Castle [hotel], where the rooms were going for $39 a night. The plan was to buy time until they could come up with a plan.
Her stepfather had applied for a dishwashing job at Chili’s but didn’t get it. Rose was temporarily out of work, too. One of the employees on her shift at Taco Bell had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and she couldn’t go back to work until she proved she was virus free.
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Finally, in early September, Rose’s parents found a way out, at least for now. A Kissimmee-based real estate agent, who provides aid to motel families and had helped them in the past, paid $3,000 in deposits and application fees for an extended-stay suite in a run-down resort community. Their new landlord agreed to overlook the fact that Rose’s parents had poor credit and had just started new $9-an-hour fast food jobs.
Joe Biden's amnesty will flood the white-collar labor market, so helping CEOs expand the use of cheap & subordinate foreign graduates.
IOW, Biden would push many pro-Democratic US graduates into the same poverty & low-status future as blue-collars. #H1Bhttps://t.co/QHbVAXr62V— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 19, 2021
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