The Kamala Harris mass amnesty plan
By
Washington Examiner
September 26, 2024 12:01 am
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Vice President Kamala Harris has proved capable of implicitly but unconvincingly reversing herself on many issues, including immigration, since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, which is why her decision not to repudiate her 2019 mass amnesty plan is so alarming.
In 2019, Harris distinguished herself from the 2020 Democratic primary field by promising to use unilateral executive power to grant permanent amnesty to so-called Dreamers and 6 million other illegal immigrants.
Specifically, she said she would create a “first of its kind” parole-in-place program for participants in President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — the Dreamers. Through the intricacies of immigration law, this designation could set Dreamers and all other immigrants on a path to citizenship without legislation.
Parole in place began as an extralegal program created by Obama in 2013 to benefit the spouses, children, and parents of current and former members of the armed forces. Spouses of any citizen can apply for citizenship, but they are ineligible if they entered the country illegally. Obama solved this problem by granting them “parole in place,” which essentially changed their past illegal entry into a lawful parole entry.
For seven years, this was essentially an illegal program, but it was codified into law by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. Crucially, the NDAA limited parole in place to members of the armed forces and their spouses, children, or parents.
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