The Trump campaign on Tuesday criticized a move by the Biden administration to allow certain undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to remain in the country and work legally, claiming it will lead to an increase in migration.
Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement describing migrants as a burden on taxpayers and a burden on social welfare programs. She also characterized Tuesday’s announcement as “mass amnesty,” although to be eligible, potential parole candidates must have been in the United States for 10 years as of Monday.
“Biden only cares about one thing – power – and that’s why he’s granting mass amnesty and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals who he knows will ultimately vote for him and the Open Border Democratic Party,” Leavitt said. .
“Biden’s mass amnesty plan will undoubtedly lead to a greater increase in migrant crime, cost taxpayers millions of dollars they cannot afford, overwhelm public services, and steal Social Security and Medicare benefits from elderly Americans for finance benefits for illegal immigrants – depleting programs Americans pay for. throughout his professional life,” she added. “Biden created another invitation to illegal immigration through his mass amnesty order.”
Biden’s announcement comes as he marks the 12th anniversary of the White House’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with its advocacy for immigrants and Latino leaders.
The expansion of current parole, as the regularization program is known, will be accompanied by measures to facilitate the application for work visas for immigrants living in the country illegally – especially DACA beneficiaries – who graduated from US colleges.
Beneficiaries will not receive new privileges; Existing pathways to regularizing your immigration status will be simplified under the new rules.
Tuesday’s effort follows an asylum crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border that has angered the same groups the new measure aims to please.
Biden had for months urged Congress to pass a bipartisan border security bill negotiated in the Senate, but faced opposition from Republicans, including former President Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Trump and his campaign have repeatedly attacked Biden over immigration and border security, linking him to crimes allegedly committed by migrants and citing record numbers of arrests along the southern border.
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