Given as they are to magical thinking, our rulers believe that word games are all that are necessary to fix things, for example, our “broken border” system. Sure, there are lots and lots of foreign folks getting into this country by sneaking across our unguarded borders, but illegal border crossing is generally held to have bad optics.
Presto-changeo, the magical thinkers in the White House think they’ve found a way to bypass all that illegal activity. Just stop calling them illegal. Instead, call them “humanitarian parolees.” That way, they can sit at home in their own countries (so far citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are eligible) and fill out an application for something called an “Advance Travel Authorization (ATA). Once that’s approved, they can board an airplane, fly over the troublesome old border, and at their destination accept America’s welcome along with a more-or-less permanent “parole.” It turns out that those tedious laws passed by Congress never meant anything. The Executive has found a way to circumvent them all.
So far during the Biden-Harris administration, a mind-blowing 530,000 of these so-called parolees have settled in this country. They continue to be illegal, in all the traditional ways of making that evaluation; it’s just the administration didn’t want to call them that and thought up a way to pretend they’re not.
“Humanitarian parole” predates Joe and Kamala, but heretofore it was always for a very limited number of migrants and was granted only on a case-by-case basis. Now, the brain trust in Washington has found it to be a way to cut down on the illegal border traffic. Expect a widening of the program under Kamala, should she sneak into office.
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