It's been clear from the earliest days of the border crisis that it was by design. Heck, illegal immigrants knew before Joe Biden took office that they should start heading toward the border because Biden was going to let them in and let them stay. Of course, the Biden administration spent years pretending like there was no crisis, that everything was fine, and that the border was secure.
It wasn't until the polls showed that public backlash against his immigration policies was hurting his campaign that his administration finally admitted the existence of a crisis and pretended to be proactive about it. That didn't last long.
After a few weeks of blaming the GOP and pretending to be open to executive actions to curb illegal immigration, the Biden administration quietly backtracked and stopped pretending that border security was a real priority. The administration treated the border crisis like a political issue, not a national security issue.
Since polls continue to show that Americans trust Trump far more than Biden to get a handle on immigration, the administration has now played its next card. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Biden is considering a plan to give more than a million illegal immigrants "legal status" before the election.
"Officials have been seriously discussing a plan to help hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally who are married to U.S. citizens," the paper reports. "The idea has gained currency inside the White House since last summer, despite the fraught nature of immigration politics heading into the 2024 presidential election. There is a growing recognition among Biden’s top political advisers that the president could benefit from taking a positive step on immigration to contrast with his tough talk on the issue, and with an expected executive order aiming to sharply curb illegal crossings at the southern border."
According to the report, officials within the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have been exploring various proposals aimed at granting work permits, or "deportation relief," to millions of illegal immigrants who have been living and working in the United States for an extended period. The focus has honed in on mixed-status families, where usually one parent and the children hold U.S. citizenship. Administration officials and advocates familiar with these discussions deem this demographic particularly compelling and is estimated to amount to 1.1 million people.
Though immigrants can typically qualify for green cards when they marry American citizens, these spouses are barred under immigration law for any number of reasons, most commonly if they entered the country illegally more than once or used forged legal documentation. Some of these infractions, advocates say, happen when immigrants are young children but can still result in lifelong bans.
Though the announcement of a program isn’t imminent, officials say, the White House has discussed timing it before the election as a sort of one-two punch following an executive order that would likely upset immigration advocates.
The report notes that Biden sees this as his opportunity to "make an impact similar to President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program" because, of course, Biden has modeled his presidency after Obama's.
It's obvious here that the border crisis is a mere prelude to mass amnesty. And Biden thinks he can get away with it. And why not? Obama did. Obama had no authority to create the DACA program, which was a repackaged version of the DREAM Act that failed to pass Congress.
Amnesty is coming, my friends. That was always what this border crisis was about.
