'Abused the laws': GOP bill vows to shut down key Biden-era policies benefitting migrants

FIRST ON FOX: A measure by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., would unopen down a slew of Biden-era moves to let migrants into nan U.S. aliases to beryllium protected from deportation, arsenic Republicans look to a imaginable governmental upheaval adjacent twelvemonth to alteration nan guidance of U.S. immigration policy.

Banks is introducing nan End Executive Branch Amnesty Act, which would return purpose astatine nan Biden administration’s usage of humanitarian parole to let migrants into nan U.S., and to limit nan usage of Temporary Protected Status to protect them from deportation.

The Biden administration, arsenic portion of its efforts to grow lawful pathways for migration to curb nan ongoing migrant situation astatine nan border, has utilized parole to let successful 1,450 migrants a time utilizing nan CBP One app astatine nan border. It has besides allowed complete 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela into nan U.S. to alert into nan U.S. utilizing a abstracted program.

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WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 24: Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a personnel of nan U.S. Navy Reserve Supply Corps who served successful Afghanistan, speaks during a news convention to knock nan Biden Administrations handling of nan withdrawal from Afghanistan extracurricular nan U.S. Capitol connected August 24, 2021 successful Washington, DC.  (Getty Images)

The Biden management says those programs person worked to limit migration and supply an orderly process astatine nan border. Republicans person claimed that nan moves correspond an maltreatment of parole to let successful different inadmissible overseas nationals. The CHNV programme was concisely paused aft DHS recovered grounds of fraud from sponsors.

"It is simply a cardinal constituent of our efforts to reside nan unprecedented level of migration passim our hemisphere, and different countries astir nan world spot it arsenic a exemplary to tackle nan situation of accrued irregular migration that they excessively are experiencing," Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas said earlier this year.

Separately, nan Biden management has utilized Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to let migrants from countries facing conflict and hardship to stay protected from deportation, including countries for illustration Venezuela and Haiti.

Critics person pointed to towns for illustration Charleroi, Pa., Springfield, Ohio, and Logansport, Indiana arsenic examples of parts of nan state that person struggled pinch an influx of migrants who person been paroled. 

Banks’ measure would restrict TPS designations by requiring Congress to o.k. them for 12 period terms, and requiring further moves by Congress to widen them. 

The measure would besides limit parole to a difficult headdress of 1,000 a year, importantly reduced from nan hundreds of thousands allowed currently. Parole would besides only beryllium allowed for constricted circumstances for illustration emergency aesculapian cases.

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Migrants hold successful statement to beryllium processed by nan Border Patrol on nan separator wall aft crossing nan Rio Grande stream into El Paso, Texas. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The measure would besides enforce stricter eligibility and placement criteria for unaccompanied children amid reports of UACs being mislaid way of by authorities. Meanwhile, nan usage of DHS documents for illustration Notices to Appear and CBP One app would beryllium barred from being utilized for airdrome information checks.

While nan measure would look a reliable situation successful a Democratic-controlled Senate and would almost surely beryllium vetoed by President Biden aliases Harris, nan measure would apt tie important support successful Republican-controlled chambers and executives. 

"The Biden-Harris management has abused nan laws connected nan books to assistance millions of non-citizens ineligible status. Republicans must reconstruct our migration strategy to Congress’s original intent and guarantee parole is only utilized arsenic a last-ditch humanitarian measurement to thief overseas nationals successful times of catastrophe," Banks said successful a statement.

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Banks mentioned Logansport, which is successful his authorities of Indiana, and which has seen an estimated 5,000 Haitian migrants successful a fewer years -- successful summation to nan millions who person crossed nan confederate border.

"Over nan past 3 years, millions of foreigners person made nan vulnerable and forbidden travel crossed our confederate separator because of nan Biden-Harris administration’s committedness of early amnesty. Democrats collapsed our migration system, and my measure would thief hole it by ending wide parole and different magnets drafting group present illegally."

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The measure comes pinch days near earlier Election Day, and pinch Vice President Harris and erstwhile President Trump dueling complete who is nan amended campaigner for separator information and immigration. Harris has pointed to a caller but crisp driblet successful separator encounters nether nan Biden management and has hammered Trump for failing to backmost a bipartisan information measure to summation backing for nan border. Trump claims that nan separator situation is owed to nan Biden administration's rolling backmost of his policies, and has promised to reconstruct galore of them and motorboat a run of wide deportation.