Biden to Grow Labor Market with Expedited Work Permits for Migrants, Skipping over Americans on Sidelines
President Joe Biden is bragging about growing the United States labor market by expediting work permits for border crossers released into the nation’s interior, even as tens of millions of employable Americans are on the sidelines of the workforce.
“We’re significantly expanding legal pathways to entry so businesses can get workers they need,” Biden told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a speech this week.
The remarks came as Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the agency would start expediting work permits for border crossers released into the U.S. interior — specifically for those who enter through the administration’s parole pipeline and border appointments via a migrant mobile app.
To massively increase the labor supply — a crucial policy goal for corporate special interest looking to keep wages down while spiking housing costs — DHS will send emails and text messages to border crossers, urging them to apply for work permits.
“To date, more than 1.4 million email and text notifications have been sent by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Ukrainian, and Russian,” agency officials wrote in a press release:
DHS is deploying 50 personnel to New York this month to educate recently arrived migrants on the immigration system and how to apply for employment authorization documents. [Emphasis added]
The announcement came as lawmakers heard from economic experts last week that mass immigration to the U.S. is driving down wages, crowding working class Americans out of jobs, and serving as a boon to big business, Wall Street, and real estate investors.
“If we didn’t have access to all this immigrant labor, employers and the American people … would demand that we try to reinstill the value of work,” Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told House members. “Raising wages would be one of the most important things to make work more attractive. Immigration lets us not do any of that, including the current flow of massive illegal immigration.”
Notably, Camarota estimates that more than 44 million native-born Americans remain on the labor market sidelines — not including the millions of native-born Americans counted in monthly unemployment figures.
In particular, Camarota finds how the nation’s working class is the most impacted by waves of illegal aliens entering the labor market. For American men 16 to 64 years old with only a high school degree, the labor force participation rate has dropped from 88 percent in 1960 to just 67 percent in 2023.
Even among prime-age working class American men, 25 to 54 years old, the labor force participation rate has declined from near full employment in 1960, at 96 percent, to just 82 percent this year.
As Breitbart News reported in May, Biden has brought in so many legal immigrants and illegal aliens that foreign workers now account for the largest share of U.S. job holders since the numbers have been tracked.
In 2022, foreign workers saw their share of the labor market hit the highest level in almost 30 years at more than 18 percent, with close to 30 million now holding U.S. jobs.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Report: Joe Biden’s DHS Plans Photo ID Cards for Illegal Aliens Freed into U.S.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly planning to give photo identification (ID) cards to border crossers and illegal aliens before they are released into the United States.
Leaked images of the photo ID cards for illegal aliens were first published by Adam Shaw at Fox News, showing space for the carrier’s photo, a QR code, and information about the carrier, including name and age — similar to a driver’s license or state-issued ID.
The ID cards, part of a DHS pilot program, could be used by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at airports or to access public benefits.
When news of the ID cards leaked last year, officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency defended the program, saying, “For provisionally released noncitizens, the digital modernization will provide ongoing access to important immigration documents through the secure card and connected portal.”
John Fabbricatore, a former ICE official and advisory board member at the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News that the ultimate goal of the Biden administration is to limit illegal aliens’ face-to-face contact with DHS agents as much as possible.
“It’s a normalization of illegal immigration,” Fabbricatore said.
Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told Breitbart News that House Republicans should act to stop the ID cards, among other things.
“Congress needs to get a handle on the Biden administration turning ICE into another social services agency for illegal aliens and return it to a law enforcement agency that enforces the laws Congress made, including detaining and deporting Biden’s mass illegal alien population,” Ries said.
Through an expansive catch-and-release network at the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden is releasing, on average, more than 60,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities every month. This is a foreign population four times the size of Martha’s Vineyard.
In total, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) estimates that Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have welcomed five million border crossers and illegal aliens to the U.S. since early January 2021.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
