(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Department announced plans to ramp up legal pathways for illegal immigrants to become American citizens with a massive wave of new migrants anticipated in May, Just the News reported.
The announcement comes Title 42—a pandemic-era policy that kept illegal immigrants from entering the country—is set to sundown, thus letting in swarms of foreigners who have been accruing on the other side of the border in Mexico.
According to the report, approved by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, immigrants will be “processed” in a much more efficient manner as they seek citizenship.
Mayorkas dubiously claimed, without evidence, that the new initiative would “further reduce unlawful migration across the Western Hemisphere, significantly expand lawful pathways for protection, and facilitate the safe, orderly, and humane processing of migrants.”
After the expiration of Title 42, the DHS reassured Americans that the state “will return to using Title 8 immigration authorities to expeditiously process and remove individuals who arrive at the U.S. border unlawfully.”
The announcement claims Title 8 authority violations “carry steep consequences for unlawful entry, including at least a five-year ban on reentry and potential criminal prosecution for repeated attempts to enter unlawfully.”
It comes just days after an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times shot and killed members of a Honduran family and their guests on Friday night near Houston, Texas, triggering a manhunt with few to no leads as of Monday. Mayorkas refused to comment on the tragedy.
Since the beginning of the Biden administration’s de-facto open-borders policy, millions are estimated to have crossed over and been absorbed into the nation’s interior, many of them no longer tracked by immigration authorities. That has included not only dangerous gang and cartel members, but also many foreign nationals on the terrorism watch list.
Although DHS has regularly insisted that the border is not open and that it maintains operational controle, the department has continued to find ways to aid illegal immigrants “through a combination of expanded lawful pathways.”
Legal pathways include, but are not limited to:
- The expansion of access to CBPOne App, which allows illegals to schedule an appointment “make additional appointments available” with the Border Patrol, and facilitate “safe, orderly, and humane processing”
- A new family reunification parole process for citizens of Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Colombia. According to the report, “vetted individuals with already approved family-based petitions” will be released into the U.S. through this new system.
- The doubling of the number of refugees from the Western Hemisphere allowed entry into the United States. DHS noted that it plans to welcome “thousands of additional refugees per month.”
