{"id":23851,"date":"2020-11-11T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23851"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:57:40","slug":"biden-bowing-to-immigration-special-interests-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/11\/11\/biden-bowing-to-immigration-special-interests-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Borders Groups Make Their Demands, But Will Biden Listen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the days before the election, Washington Post \u201cfact-checkers\u201d claimed<\/a> that President Donald Trump was mischaracterizing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s immigration agenda<\/a>. The former vice president, they said, \u201cdoes not support \u2018open borders\u2019\u201d policies, such as dramatically increasing refugee admissions or ending deportations. It\u2019s hard to know how factual the fact check was because the media never pressed him on what he would do after reversing the President Trump\u2019s immigration reforms. So, which Biden is on course to inhabit the White House?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the Biden of today is not the same Biden who said walls were needed<\/a> to stop border drug trafficking or who was part of an administration that actually\u00a0backed Republicans\u2019<\/a>\u00a0call for granting more authority to expeditiously deport migrant children from Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps Biden has been swept along with the radical insurgency that has swept the Democrat Party to the left. Even the liberal National Public Radio<\/a> recognized that Democrats have \u201cadopted a fundamentally more progressive attitude on immigration in a relatively short time\u201d that views immigration as an abstract issue about \u201csocial justice\u201d and not one about real world concerns like jobs, economic stability, public safety or national security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the 2020 Democratic Party platform<\/a> asserts that \u201ctaxpayer dollars should never flow to employers who steal workers\u2019 wages, violate labor laws, engage in union-busting, or exploit immigrant workers to depress working conditions for all workers,\u201d while embracing the expansion of foreign worker visa programs and amnesties that will produce the opposite results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither Joe Biden nor California Sen. Kamala Harris were asked whether there is a single reform adopted in the last four years they\u2019d keep or were pressed on \u201cwhat\u2019s next\u201d after they\u2019ve \u201cde-Trumped\u201d our immigration system. While we heard little before the election about how far left Biden had moved since he was last in the White House, we are getting some uncomfortable clarity. He has named to his transition team<\/a> Andrea Flores\u200b, the deputy director of immigration policy for the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s equality division, and intends walk away from agreements<\/a> made with Central American nations regarding migration and asylum policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Migration Studies just released a 28-page \u201cwish list\u201d<\/a> for the Biden administration that is not, the report notes, a \u201ccomprehensive list of reforms\u201d but just some policies that can be \u201cadopted through executive action\u201d or through the settlement of lawsuits. The first year items include defunding construction of the border wall; deprioritize prosecutions for improper entry, forgoing prosecutions of fraudulent asylum-seekers, limiting the role of local and state authorities in immigration enforcement; preserving DACA, ending use of private detention centers and; making it easier to file complaints against immigration authorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would hate to see their \u201ccomprehensive\u201d list, but imagine\nthat like the first list no approval from the people\u2019s representatives in\nCongress would be needed. If CMS\u2019s agenda is not full open borders, it is as\nclose as one can get. And they are not the only organization publicly pushing\nfor a \u201cKatie unbar the doors\u201d approach to immigration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Bier of the libertarian pro-mass immigration Cato Institute put forth a concise \u201ccompendium of 52 reform ideas<\/a>\u201d to correct what he sees as two main flaws in the U.S. immigration system. First, he says, \u201cthe system is too restrictive, which leads to violations of the law by immigrants who fail to qualify, lengthy wait times for immigrants who do qualify, and lost benefits to Americans who wish to interact with both.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation: Our immigration system makes unqualified and\nimpatient immigrations break the law and is unfair to Americans who want cheap\nlabor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bier says the other flaw is that the immigration system is\n\u201ctoo inflexible to adapt to new economic or social conditions,\u201d which is\nnothing more than ceding to the demands of businesses who\u2019ve become reliant upon\na steady stream of labor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, the anti-enforcement American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) went public with its own set of\u00a0recommendations on immigration reform<\/a>\u00a0for the Biden-Harris administration. While they couch their demands in warmer rhetoric, it remains an unabashedly clear roadmap to a country with no borders to enforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briefly, they propose protecting \u201cpeople who are part of\nour communities but have no way of legalizing their status,\u201d which is mass\namnesty for illegal aliens in plain English. They want to issue a \u201cproclamation\nwelcoming immigrants and renouncing anti-immigrant bans and policies,\u201d and \u201cend\nthe massive incarceration of immigrants by overhauling the detention system.\u201d\nBoth of those add up to amnesty and open borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrow margin of victory for Biden-Harris and the\ndown-ballot results indicate a country hungry for competent government that\nwill heal divisions and address crises, not radical agendas being pushed by\nfringe groups that will create new divisions and crises like those seeking to\nthrow open the immigration floodgates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the days before the election, Washington Post \u201cfact-checkers\u201d claimed that President Donald Trump was mischaracterizing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s immigration agenda. The former vice president, they said, \u201cdoes not support \u2018open borders\u2019\u201d policies, such as dramatically increasing refugee admissions or ending deportations. It\u2019s hard to know how factual the fact check was because<\/p>\n

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