Scoop: USCIS to Allow Afghan Parolee Charged with Rape to Keep His Work Permit
By Robert Law on October 26, 2021
In September, President Biden botched the Afghan withdrawal, which cost 13 U.S. servicemembers their lives during a suicide bombing. The Biden administration compounded its errors by recklessly allowing tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans to get on planes headed to the United States, while stranding an unknown number of Americans and lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in Afghanistan. As I wrote in Newsweek back on September 8, “The Biden administration policy seems to be to get as many here as quickly as possible and sort out the details later. What could possibly go wrong?”
Sadly, and predictably, a lot has gone wrong. Right away, a convicted rapist was found on one of the planes that landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, about an hour’s drive from the White House. Because these Afghans are visa-less, President Biden’s secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allowed them into the country through an unlawful categorical use of his parole authority.
With parole, these aliens immediately became eligible for a work permit, known as an employment authorization document (EAD). As I scooped back on September 9, DHS issued the work permits before the lengthy national security and background checks could be run. The Biden political team told career staff they would “resolve” derogatory information after the fact without establishing any detailed plan for how that would play out.
https://cis.org/Law/Scoop-USCIS-Allow-Afghan-Parolee-Charged-Rape-Keep-His-Work-Permit
