Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Says Biden Supports Free College For Illegal Immigrants.
On 5/26/2022, Senator Lankford said, “…All you have to do is cross the border and say the magic words, ‘I have credible fear,’ and the Biden Administration hands you a piece of paper, and you’re in the country for the next eight years.”
It is not that there is root causes in Central America. We’re the United States of America. Everyone in the world wants to be here. And if all you have to do is cross the border and say the magic words, ‘I have credible fear,’ and the Biden Administration hands you a piece of paper, and you’re in the country for the next eight years—eight years—until your hearing, the whole world is going to keep coming here.
Now, right now, literally right now, we have 8,000 people a day that are illegally crossing our border—8,000. Last summer in the midst of all the chaos when the all the cameras were focused on our southern border, there were 6,000 people a day illegally crossing the border. It is worse now than it was a year ago, but the cameras have all moved on and said, ‘Nothing to see here,’ when it continues to be able to get worse literally every month.
Last month, a quarter million people illegally crossed the border—a quarter million. Half of those turned away with Title 42 authority which the Biden Administration is trying to end to allow everyone to be able to come across the border. But this asylum rule gives me some sense of hope that they are at least identifying what the problem is and trying to start working on it.
Here’s the problem though, the way that this rule is actually set up, almost every negative determination made under this expedited asylum process gets appealed under the normal process anyway. So while they’re creating an expedited process, all they have to do is say, ‘I disagree with the expedited process,’ and they get through the long, protracted eight-year process anyway. It doesn’t solve the problem.
So while the Executive Branch is trying to do something, their something that they’re doing doesn’t actually fix the issue. We have to change this issue in law.
Secretary Mayorkas was on the Hill two weeks ago. He came and presented the new plan in place for what they’re going to do at the border. Part of that plan was this new asylum rule. But when you read the summary, at the very end of it, they go through all their details, these high-level points of six different areas where they’re going to work to be able to decrease. At the end of it the summary statement ends with, despite our best efforts, we anticipate an increase in migration.
What they’re saying is the policies that they currently have in place are going to continue to increase migration, even with things like this new asylum rule that they’re trying to be able to put in place, because they know this doesn’t actually fix the problem.
MPP, the Remain in Mexico Program that a federal court has required them to maintain that they’re doing MPP only in such a way to say to the federal courts that we’re doing something. We have 8,000 people a day that are illegally crossing the border. We have about 2,000 people a month that they’re putting through the MPP program. We have 8,000 people a day that are illegally crossing the border. Currently ICE is deporting 203 people a day. With 8,000 people a day crossing, 203 people actually being deported, you see the math here.
They’re not trying to stop the flow. They’re not trying to disincentivize this. We need to actually get serious about this. So, yes, I’m going to support a Congressional Review Act on this individual piece because it doesn’t actually fix the problem. Let’s actually sit down and fix the problem actually in statute. That’s what needs to be done.
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Lankford on immigration asylum law. Edu Sec Cardona on Biden Free College For Immigrants.