THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN!
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Josh Hawley: Biden’s ‘Concierge Service’ for Illegal Aliens Comes at Expense of Americans’ Jobs, Wages
President Joe Biden’s “concierge service” for illegal aliens comes at the expense of Americans’ jobs and wages, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said this week.
In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley blasted the administration’s migrant mobile app — known as CBP One — that has released more than 30,000 foreign nationals into the United States since early January by allowing them to schedule appointments at the southern border.
Specifically, the migrant mobile app allows foreign nationals who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims living in Mexico to schedule appointments at the border for release into the U.S. interior.
Hawley writes that the migrant mobile app is in effect “like making a restaurant reservation” and will have dire effects on Americans’ jobs and wages:
Under your leadership, the Department is marketing a new phone app, called CBP One, that allows unauthorized migrants to reserve a time to cross the border, like making a restaurant reservation. How convenient. I gather the app is meant to expedite asylum claims, or so your Department’s promotional material says. But I noticed you said nothing about asylum when I asked you at the hearing. And the Texas Monthly has recently reported that “[a]t no point does the app ask users ‘Are you seeking asylum?’” Worse, when migrants show up at the border to enter the country, they “are given no interviews and asked no questions about vulnerabilities they listed in the app or about why they’re seeking asylum in the U.S.—they’re simply released into the country on official parole.” [Emphasis added]
…I imagine there are plenty of Americans who would appreciate this level of service from their government. Your choice to spend untold sums of taxpayer money—you said you had no idea what it cost—on concierge service for illegals is baffling. It is also revealing. It demonstrates your priorities: open borders, no matter the cost to Americans; no matter the jobs lost, the wages lost, the drugs flooding our schools. [Emphasis added]
Hawley calls the migrant mobile app “a full-on institutionalization of an open border and the abuse” of U.S. asylum laws, pressing Mayorkas to disclose how many foreign nationals have used the app since its inception, how many are expected to use the app after border controls end in May, and if the app will be updated to ask applicants if they have legitimate asylum claims.
The tech companies involved in the migrant mobile app’s creation, Hawley writes, should also be disclosed to the public and Congress along with the taxpayer costs associated with the app.
Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network at the border is pumping hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, often illegal, into working- and middle-class American jobs. At the same time, fewer Americans are working.
As Breitbart News reported, at the end of 2022, there were nearly two million fewer native-born Americans working compared to the same time in 2019, while two million foreign-born workers have been added to the workforce compared to the same time period.
In particular, the decline in the labor participation rate among working-class native-born Americans has dropped to 70.3 percent at the end of last year compared to 71.4 percent in 2019, 74.8 percent in 2006, and 76.4 percent in 2000.
Working-class native-born American men, those without a bachelor’s degree between 25 to 54 years old, had only an 83.7 percent labor participation rate at the end of 2022 — declining consistently since the year 2000.
The Biden administration has largely ignored efforts to get native-born Americans back into the workforce, instead adding millions of foreign workers to the labor market which adds downward pressure, particularly for working-class Americans in terms of finding jobs and securing higher wages.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden Wants the Public To Think He's Cracking Down on the Border. Critics Aren't Buying It.
Biden pivots to the center on immigration ahead of 2024 election
Over the last four months, President Joe Biden has rolled out a series of immigration policies that could just as easily have emerged from former president Donald Trump's administration: a hard cap on the number of Latin Americans who can claim asylum in the United States, temporary deportation to Mexico for those asylum seekers, and a planned reimplementation of detaining migrant families behind bars.
Staring down an estimated 5.5 million southern border crossings since the president took office—the most in U.S. history—Democratic strategists say Biden's 180-degree pivot on immigration underscores his vulnerability on the issue as he prepares to run for a second term. Polling suggests the issue is a liability for the president: A March Associated Press poll found that just 39 percent of U.S. adults approve of his handling of immigration, while just 38 percent approve of his response to the border crisis.
"I think the electorate is much closer to the center on immigration than where the White House has been," said Democratic political consultant Mike Mikus, who has worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the campaign of former Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf (D.). "The people who decide elections are in the middle."
But virtually all of Biden's attempts to pivot to the center on the border, which is still seeing a historically high number crossings, are too little too late and meant to grab headlines rather than solve the problem, critics say. Working with allies to accept more migrants or creating a new asylum application process may prompt media commentary about Biden's attempt at triangulation in the lead-up to 2024, those critics allege, but do nothing to change the fact that millions of Latin Americans believe they are welcome to start new lives in the United States.
Even some liberals agree. For two years, said Democratic political consultant Colin Strother, the White House allowed "ideologues" to determine the nation's immigration policies, leading to chaotic flows of illegal immigrants. Now, administration officials are trying to undo the damage. "Biden sees the same polling data as everyone else. They're talking to focus groups, they know it's a problem," Strother said.
Last month, Biden announced a new cooperation agreement with Canada to stem the flow of illegal immigrants at the U.S. northern border. That agreement includes the establishment of a refugee program in Canada for 15,000 migrants allegedly fleeing violence and economic collapse in South America and Central America.
Although the White House touted the agreement as a step forward in overcoming "the daunting challenges of today," the 15,000 figure is a drop in the bucket, compared with the more than 156,000 southern border crossings in January alone, and fails to address Border Patrol's lack of resources.
Meanwhile, the administration has neglected to use the one tool immigration hawks believe is the best way to stop future illegal crossings: deportations, which have plummeted to historic lows.
"We'll never have a secure border without robust enforcement of the nation's immigration laws in the interior of the country," said former senior Department of Homeland Security official Jon Feere. "The Biden administration's policies have created a nationwide sanctuary where ICE arrests and removals have plummeted."
At the same time, Biden is doubling down on a more permissive immigration regime while offering tough talk to lawbreakers. In January—the same month Biden made the first trip of his entire political career to the southern border—the White House trumpeted a program that would make it easier for migrants from four Latin American countries to enter the United States by allowing them to apply for asylum via a mobile phone application. Up to 30,000 migrants will be accepted each month from those countries, which Biden says will deter migrants from simply showing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. All other migrants from those countries would be turned away at the border.
Many of these policy changes are happening as Biden charges ahead, despite bipartisan criticism, with his plan for a May repeal of Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that gives authorities the power to turn away anyone on the southern border who may constitute a public health risk. As a compromise, Biden implemented a new rule in February that following Title 42's termination bars migrants who first passed through another country from entering the United States. Left-wing activists, such as those at Human Rights Watch, blasted the proposal as "deadly" and reminiscent of Trump-era policies.
But, immigration experts noted, Biden's rule is full of loopholes that negate much of the deterrence effect. Under the plan, family units will be exempted from accelerated deportation, as will children. The White House also floated the possibility of detaining families—a practice required by law but often ignored by both Republican and Democratic administrations—before their immigration hearings, although no action has been taken following outcry from congressional Democrats.
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