Time was when a prospective “asylum seeker” from somewhere in the world would travel to the Mexican side of our southern border and then hire a smuggling cartel to get him illegally across into the United States. Once there, he might simply disappear or, more commonly of late, surrender to the CBP, fill out some paperwork, and then be formally admitted.
But that was so pre-Biden. Now, thanks to the wonders of the Biden admin’s imagination, all that bother and that nasty old “illegal” word can be dispensed with. The people in charge of “protecting” our border have discovered a new super power called “humanitarian parole” that permits them to pre-approve otherwise illegal migrants while they’re still in Mexico. The once-illegal migrant is thus–Prest-O, Change-O!–magically transformed into a kind of super-citizen, with powers and benefits far beyond those of mortal Americans.
Here’s how it works: At a migrant shelter–say, in Mexicali–operated by a pro-migrant NGO headquartered in the U.S., the migrant is fed and given a place to rest up. While there, he meets with a team of volunteers, lawyers, and psychologists who help him concoct a story calculated to meet parole requirements (being homosexual is a good bet). The team of advisors prepares the paperwork and gets the migrant to a border checkpoint, where he is likely to be warmly welcomed, given a work permit and assorted freebies, and released into the Promised Land. (He may be asked to check in sometime with an immigration court, but given the vanishingly small likelihood that failure to do so will have any repercussions, that’s pretty optional.)
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the Biden administration has already used its newfound super power to admit more than a million migrants and is averaging more than 150,000 a month. Neither the fact that Humanitarian Parole was never intended to function this way nor that it is most likely being used illegally fazes them. In Bidenworld, the law is what the enforcer (ie, the federal executive branch) wants it to be. Nothing more, nothing less.
For more, see CIS.org.