On Tuesday, June 18, the Biden administration unveiled a new immigration program providing a pathway to citizenship for approximately half a million immigrants who are married to American citizens but lack legal status in the United States. It is one of President Joe Biden’s most comprehensive immigration policies, and one that immigration advocates have been heavily lobbying for. Some Republican legislators, however, believe this executive action will incentivize even more illegal immigration.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker defends Republican concerns and argues that Biden’s border policies are all for show.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
He’s obviously taken this action to appease liberals in his political base in the months leading up until the presidential election. Liberals have expressed anger at Biden for supposedly enforcing stricter measures at the U.S.-Mexico border. In reality, Biden is pretending to take meaningful action, but his new border policy has such a high threshold for triggering enforcement measures and is so full of loopholes that it is merely [sic] a smokescreen to gaslight the broader American electorate.
Many Americans are rightly concerned that Biden’s reckless immigration policy threatens our national security, our public safety and the economic well-being of communities across America.
President Biden is engaging in a pattern of ignoring our democratic process even as he continues to make allegations about threats to democracy. He and his allies are relentlessly attacking the Supreme Court and seeking to undermine public confidence in our judicial branch of government when they make decisions that conflict with the progressive agenda.
Interested in opposing perspectives? Have a look at how our other contributors view this issue from across the political spectrum:
Jordan Reid: Biden’s achievements undermined by growing perception gaps.
Ruben Navarrette: Democrats too soft on Biden’s poor treatment of immigrants.
Larry Lindsey: Immigration will lower wages and cause more income inequality.