Biden Provides Half Million Illegal Immigrants Amnesty, Bypassing Congress

Last Tuesday, President Biden implemented a new initiative titled, “Parole in Place,” which will protect the deportation of about 550,000 illegal immigrants who have been married to U.S. citizens for over a decade. According to Forbes, the program “will also provide work permits and an easier path to a green card.” 

While Biden called his decision a “commonsense fix,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) calls it “a brazen political stunt.”

“Biden is trying to play games with our homeland security, and he’s using that as a political tool of some kind,” Johnson shared with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins during the latest edition of “This Week on the Hill.” “And it’s really dangerous because it is going to further incentivize illegal immigration … and of course, it’s against the law. He’s doing an end-run around Congress purely as a violation of the letter and the spirit of the law.”

Meanwhile, over a dozen congressmen likened Biden’s decision to throwing “fuel on the fire of the ongoing border crisis.” With Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) leading the charge, 16 GOP senators wrote Biden a letter expressing their “grave concern.” The opening verbiage remained civil and courteous, but the letter eventually blasted Biden’s unlawful actions.

“Parole was never intended as a mass amnesty,” the letter reads. “Your actions fly in the face of the clear reading of the law. Due to reckless policies, your Administration has encountered more illegal aliens at the southern border than the Obama administration and Trump administration combined.”

Ironically, Biden does not seem too concerned with the rise of illegal alien “encounters.” Rather, he expresses his sympathy toward those who have been hiding from the government for the last few decades in fear of being caught, and as a result, sent back to their home country.

“They [illegal aliens] stay in America, living in constant fear of deportation without the ability to legally work,” he claimed while announcing the decision. “Today, I am announcing a commonsense fix: to streamline the process for obtaining legal status for immigrants.”

After justifying his decision, Biden acknowledged the widespread fear many Americans have regarding the boarder crisis. But instead of calming anyone’s nerves, he made light of the situation by calling Americans who have concerns about the border ignorant. “They don’t understand a lot of it,” he claimed.

Biden then proceeded to point his finger at Donald Trump, claiming the opposing candidate was taking advantage of Americans’ anxieties. “These are the fears my predecessor’s trying to play on when he says immigrants — and his words are — ‘poison the blood of the country.’ When he calls immigrants, in his words, ‘animals.’”

Why might Trump believe immigrants will poison the country? In December of 2023, he attempted to forecast the consequences of the recent border crisis and flood of illegal immigrants. “They’re pouring into our country, [and] nobody’s even looking at them,” he said. “The crime is just going to be tremendous.”

Was he right? Recent headlines would say yes.

Just last week, 12-year-old Houston native Jocelyn Nungaray was found dead in a creek after being strangled by Johan Jose Rangel Martinez and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, both illegal migrants from Venezuela. According to Fox News, Rangel Martinez had originally been caught by Border Control agents but was ultimately released into the country “on an unknown basis.”

Earlier in June, a 25-year-old migrant from Ecuador named Christian Inga lured two 13-year-olds into the woods while threatening them with a knife, where he proceeded to rape one of the young girls. After admitting to videoing the disgusting and vile act, he was arrested and charged with “rape, sexual abuse, robbery, kidnapping, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, and unlawful imprisonment.”

These stories are astonishing and grotesque, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Other victims who suffered at the hands of people who have illegally walked across an American border include Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, Kayla Maria Hamilton, Lizbeth Medina, and the list goes on.

As Johnson told Perkins, “We’ve seen some very high-profile cases of those who have come to this country illegally, slipping across the open southern border, [and] engaging in brutal attacks on American citizens.” After listing a few recent cases, he added that Americans are “going to see more and more of this.”

“We’ll try to pass resolutions in the House, but it’ll all be stopped on [Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s desk because the Democrats run the Senate as well. But I’ll tell you what’s coming,” he concluded. “Relief is coming in November, and I’m convinced we’ll have a new commander-in-chief who believes in border security.”