Sen. Bob Menendez announced a plan for managing immigration to the United States that would rely completely on executive actions by President Joe Biden, including increasing legal pathways, protecting migrants and punishing human traffickers.
Menendez, D-N.J., who has long been a voice on national immigration issues, chastised the administration for its efforts so far and pushed Biden to go around Congress to take more concrete action.
Menendez said his plan would create new pathways for immigrants to relieve the current pressure at the Southwest border and increase resources to relieve the asylum backlog. His plan also calls for more humanitarian assistance for refugees across Latin America and would increase efforts to tackle the network of human traffickers who drive migrants to the border for a price.
“For the last year, I have repeatedly expressed concerns over the Biden administration’s decision to implement short-term deterrence policies that fail to address the cycle of irregular migration at our southwest border,” Menendez said in a statement.
“My plan provides a set of policies that will secure our borders without sacrificing our domestic and legal obligations to asylum seekers by working with partners in the region to give people alternative options to illegal smuggling networks.”
Menendez said, more importantly, his plan can be done through executive action to break through inaction by Congress, which has not taken up a comprehensive immigration plan in years.
Menendez’s said one of the key components would be to view migration as a challenge for the Western Hemisphere and not just a problem at the United State’s southwest border.
“Successive U.S. administrations have designed their domestic and foreign policies to respond to shifting needs at the border, an approach that has not created a sustainable long-term solution to a mixed flow of migrants and refugees,” a statement from Menendez’s office said.
“Our nation’s migration approach is enforcement-driven, reactive, and overly focused on punitive policies to deter migrants once they arrive at our borders; however, the region’s challenges require a comprehensive U.S. approach that recognizes individual country conditions that drive irregular migration.”
Menendez’s plan calls for the creation of a parole program for individuals who can fill positions facing a labor shortage and expand access to H-2 visas in Latin America and Caribbean programming while enhancing labor protections.
It also calls for an increase in funding in Central American countries to help address the flow of migration at its roots.
Menendez’s plan comes after the Biden administration in February took fire from many of its allies for a new immigration rule that they said would illegally ban refugees from seeking asylum. That policy change made migrants’ claims for admission illegal if they did not arrive at a port of entry or without an appointment.
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“Sen. Bob Menendez announced a plan for managing immigration to the United States that would rely completely on executive actions by President Joe Biden, including increasing legal pathways, protecting migrants and punishing human traffickers.”
In other words, “just open the doors even wider to allow even more illegal immigrants into the U.S. and force the taxpayers to completely support them.
Amendment IX section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
I think 5 million illegal immigrants, illegally crossing our borders and bringing in lethal fentanyl with them would classify as an invasion.
Invasion – an unwelcome intrusion into another’s domain.
To these traitors in office, NO AMOUNT OF PEOPLE Flooding in, is ‘an invasion’. AND FOR ANYONE to claim otherwise, is racist/bigoted/phobic, pick your phrase..
I remember Biden making the comment, before his term as President, that any President who ruled by Executive Order was in fact a Dictator. His first day in office Biden signed a dozen or more Executive Orders overturning Trump’s wise policies. Now we have a Democrat Senator announcing a group of Executive Orders bypassing Congress on Immigration. Let’s face it, Biden and Democrats are the Dictators in Fact if not by Name.
That’s because he meant ANY REPUBLICAN Doing it, was a dictator. DEMS Can do it all they want.
Biden has no constitutional authority to override laws legally on the books. This country supposedly elected a president, not a dictator. The republicans need to grow a pair and start challenging all of his dictates in court. Then congress needs to start doing their jobs in passing legislation.
The only executive actions WE THE PEOPLE have to, or should authorize, is to enforce the laws already on the books, and hold in abeyance any that continue to let illegals in, until such time as the courts can catch up with the law breakers, currently released on this side of the border to wait 2-3 years for a court hearing when they should all remain at home in their country of origin a many years as it takes. NO SOCIAL SERVICES provided. I’m sick of hearing these drooling democrats spout spit about our domestic legal obligations to asylum seekers. All LEGAL obligations stop, the minute they ILLEGALLY break our immigration laws, Biden should just admit that Treason is his reason 4-5 million are allowed in, whose first act upon entering American soil is to break our laws of entry, then go on living here breaking as many other laws they think they are entitled to and can get away with, thanks to Democrat party collusion.
AND IF all these politicians KEEP SAYING “DON’T enforce the laws”, then WHY DO WE NEED TO MANY LAW MAKERS!!!!
The constitution says how to become a citizen. Otherwise deport or close the border. So the democrats think the president should make laws by Executive orders ?? So if we get trump or desantas in as president they can make laws. Too ???
If he takes the first 10,000 to his home or pays their rent, food, medical, etc for a year I will believe he is serious, otherwise just another one who want to destroy the USA and flood ithe illegal invaders.
Like always with dems, ITS OUR responsibility, NEVER THEIRS!