As I scooped last September, Biden political appointees at U.S. Instead, Secretary Mayorkas indiscriminately paroled in the entire Afghan population on those airplanes in blatant disregard of the narrow statutory eligibility requirements.īy regulation, a paroled alien may apply for a discretionary work permit, meaning the alien is not entitled to it and a USCIS adjudicator could deny the request based on the totality of the evidence presented. Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows the DHS secretary to parole an otherwise inadmissible alien into the country only on a case-by-case basis and for “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit”. Having already unlawfully allowed all of these visa-less Afghans into the country through a categorical use of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s parole authority, the Biden administration doubled down on its efforts to ensure they are never returned home. That claim was quickly proven untrue and the messaging apparatus shifted to calling them “Afghan evacuees”. Initially, the Biden administration and its allies in the media assured the public that all the Afghans were eligible for Special Immigrant Visas for meaningfully assisting the war effort. As part of last summer’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan the Biden administration allowed approximately 70,000 unvetted, visa-less Afghans into the United States. So what are the unrelated immigration provisions the Biden administration wanted included in a bill being sold to the American public as providing funding and weapons for the Ukrainian government? Their attempted inclusion is the latest example of the 'never let a serious crisis go to waste' mantra coined by then-President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. According to the House Appropriations Committee press release, the bill will “provide more than $40 billion in emergency funding to support the Ukrainian people and defend global democracy in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine.” Despite the seemingly straightforward bill title and statement from Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), legislation in Congress is rarely narrowly tailored.Īs it turns out, the White House’s funding request included several immigration provisions that have nothing to do with Ukraine. 7691, the “Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022” last week, and the Senate is expected to pass it as well, despite a delaying effort by Sen.

The House of Representatives approved H.R.

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