Since Day 1, the Biden-Harris administration has been running a “parallel” immigration system — separate from and unmoored by the immigration rules Congress has created.
The costs and dangers of that alternative system are now impacting communities across the United States, both major metropolitan areas and small towns.
Congressional representatives are the elected officials most accountable to the people.
House members run for reelection every two years.
If they don’t represent their constituents, they’re replaced.
Which is why the Constitution and the Supreme Court have given Congress “exclusive” control to decide which foreign nationals can be admitted, and which must be removed.
Congress says that before they are admitted, migrants must prove that they don’t have criminal records, won’t threaten our security, won’t rely on public assistance and their employment won’t “adversely affect the wages and working conditions of” American workers.
Congress also limits the number of new residents who can come here (allowing in roughly 1 million annually) to ensure they can be assimilated into — and don’t overwhelm — our communities.
The Biden-Harris administration has ignored those rules and waved more than 5.6 million illegal migrants into the United States in less than four years (with millions more sneaking in).
The White House contends it’s not breaking Congress’ rules.
Why?
Because it’s not “admitting” them.
They’re just letting them in.
There’s no real way to determine which of those entrants have criminal records or gang ties back home once they’re here and little opportunity to figure out if they pose security risks
Harris and Biden also are working overtime to give them work cards, without care to the impact millions of new workers will have on the wages and working conditions of US employees.
Even if they can work, few have real job skills or the benefit of a good education.
Consequently, to one degree or another, they will compete with struggling American workers for jobs and rely on public assistance for food, housing and medical care.
Big cities like New York struggle to accommodate migrant needs.
So imagine the burden on smaller communities.
Migrants quickly overwhelm social services, law enforcement and medical resources.
DHS doled out $780 million-plus in FY 2023 to cover some of those costs and is ponying up $639 million more this fiscal year.
Ask local officials and you’ll see that’s a pittance compared to the costs migrants are imposing on their budgets.
Taxpayers are getting squeezed either way.
Moreover, millions of illegal migrants can’t be assimilated in the short run, and as the administration opens the door to tens of thousands more monthly, any hope of assimilation becomes dim.
That’s likely fine with the Biden-Harris administration: It banned use of the term “assimilation” early on, replacing it with the weasel word “integration.”
And because criminal migrants aren’t weeded out prior to arrival, innocent Americans — and migrants — are senselessly exposed to increasing abuse and predation.
Congress created immigration restrictions to protect Americans — both citizens and legal immigrants.
And as President Bill Clinton explained in 1995: “We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen.”
His Democratic Party is long gone.
Criminals and terrorists aside, none of these costs and impacts should be blamed on the migrants themselves.
Most would gladly accept much higher wages, free government benefits and a better education for our kids if they were offered.
The responsibility — and blame — rests with the administration, which bafflingly seems hell-bent on breaking the law.
Andrew Arthur is the fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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