GOP Sens: Illegal Immigrants Granted Exec. Amnesty Use Loophole to Get on Path to Citizenship
3 Mar 2016 by CAROLINE MAY
While President Obama assured that illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty would not be put on a path to citizenship, a loophole expanded by the administration has allowed just that, and two Republican lawmakers are demanding answers.
Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program grants pseudo legal status and work permits to certain illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. DACA recipients are technically ineligible for permanent residency and citizenship. Due to an administrative loophole, however, DACA recipients have been able to obtain a benefit called “advance parole,” which allows a recipient to seek and obtain permanent residency and eventual citizenship.
“The grant of advance parole to DACA recipients does indeed open the door to undocumented immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) 100% (R-UT) wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Wednesday.
“Though the federal statute governing the parole authority requires that parole be granted only for ‘urgent humanitarian reasons’ or in cases of ‘significant public benefit,’ United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy has expanded potential grounds of advance parole approval for DACA recipients to ‘educational purposes, employment purposes, or humanitarian purposes,’” they explained.
The result of the expanded justifications for “advance parole” has been that DACA recipients need only travel to another country and back for reasons like studying abroad in order to have their status adjusted to parolee, a distinction that is more easily placed on a path to citizenship. According to the Senators, this loophole has been highlighted and utilized by amnesty advocates for years.
“Since 2013, the number of DACA recipients who have obtained advance parole, left the country and returned as parolees, and then adjusted to lawful permanent resident status can only have increased,” the lawmakers wrote.
In their letter, Grassley and Lee demand numbers detailing how many illegal immigrant DACA recipients have been granted parole, travelled abroad, and sought permanent residency.
“A recent story in a California newspaper describes how exploitation of this loophole has now become a cottage industry,” they wrote.
“According to the story, undocumented, DACA-recipient students at various Southern Californian universities have started going on organized ‘study abroad’ trips to Mexico after securing advance parole from USCIS, returning as parolees who are then eligible to adjust to lawful permanent resident status,” Grassley and Lee added. “One professor of Chicano Studies at Cal State Long Beach is described as having ‘discovered’ the advance parole provision in 2014 and used it to take two students to Mexico that spring. In December, 2015, that same professor used advance parole to take 30 undocumented students from across Southern California to study and visit family in Mexico. He plans to take another round of students this summer.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/03/gop-sens-illegal-immigrants-granted-exec-amnesty-use-loophole-to-get-on-path-to-citizenship/
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As DHS Plans to Cut Border Patrol Agents, More Illegals Plan to Cross Border Before Trump Builds Wall
Mar 4, 2016 by Warren Mass
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget for fiscal 2017 will fund 300 fewer Border Patrol agents in 2017 than it did for this fiscal year, reported KRGV.com on March 1. KRGV.com is the website of KRGV, the local ABC affiliate television station for the Rio Grand Valley in far south Texas.
The cut in funding for agents comes at a time when illegal cross-border traffic is high and, if anything, more Border Patrol agents are needed to secure our border.
“One, we have people turning themselves in at unprecedented rates. Then we have the people that are always coming in illegally,” KRGV quoted National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 Vice President Chris Cabrera. “Then we have the drug flow that’s coming north and the money that’s going south and guns that are going south. And to cut jobs at a time like this is a recipe for disaster.”
Cabrera, as the spokesperson for the organization that represents nearly 17,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents, has been vocal in making the problems associated with securing our borders known to the public.
Speaking to Breitbart Texas last June, Cabrera said that during the previous few weeks, the numbers of unaccompanied minors and incomplete family units coming across the border had been rapidly increasing. “This is starting to resemble the summer border surge of 2014,” Cabrera told Breitbart. “We are not nearly at the numbers we were last year, but it looks like we are in the opening stages. We had two groups equal a little over 70 in one hour today. These were women and children,” Cabrera continued. “We’ve also seen a lot of children traveling alone.”
During that interview, Cabrera also observed a phenomenon that we had reported on during the 2014 surge. Instead of hiding from Border Patrol agents to sneak into the country, as illegal aliens have traditionally done, many of the children and women who have crossed the border illegally have been seeking out Border Patrol agents and turning themselves in. “This is really the mark that indicates a coming crisis,” said Cabrera. “When the women and children start seeking out agents, we know there is word spreading in their home countries that they can come and be set free.”
Just as the number of Border Patrol agents defending our borders is scheduled to drop, the influx of illegal aliens crossing them is likely to rise. And there is a new phenomenon contributing to this rise, along with lax border enforcement and the granting of amnesty to illegal aliens in the past.
A Reuters report on March 1 revealed that potential migrants in Latin American have been watching the political scene in the United States and are fearful of what will happen if Donald Trump or another tough-on-illegal-immigration Republican is elected president.
The report noted that more migrants are trying to cross the border illegally now because they are fearful of tighter policing and new policies to halt illegal immigration if Trump or another Republican wins the November 8 election. “If Trump wins, we’re all screwed and all Latinos are screwed,” Reuters quoted Isaias Franco, identified as an illegal from El Salvador who was deported from the United States late last year and is now trying to get back. Franco spoke to reporters at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
The report noted that Franco, like other potential illegal aliens, is aware of the U.S. presidential race and Trump’s commitment, matched by fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz, to deport all the illegal immigrants in the United States. Their numbers are estimated at more than 11 million. “You watch the news…. There’s a lot of fear among Latinos,” Franco said, adding that a Republican victory would mean the end of proposed reforms to give many immigrants greater protection from deportation.
The report also quoted Blanca Rivera, who manages the Ciudad Juarez migrant shelter, who has noticed a recent surge in the numbers of migrants, which she attributes to Trump’s strong anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric. “They think they need to take advantage while they can,” said Rivera.
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Former Border Patrol Agents: Illegal Immigration Crisis “Contrived”
Obama Opens Borders, Releases Illegal Immigrants Into U.S.
Border Patrol Union Leader Says Administration Offers “De Facto Amnesty”
Flood of Illegal Immigrants Now Includes Gang Members
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/22678-as-dhs-plans-to-cut-border-patrol-agents-more-illegals-plan-to-cross-border-before-trump-builds-wall
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