Immigration

Biden’s border app allowing thousands of migrants to bypass wait time, work in U.S. each month

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3 months ago

September 5, 2023

Tens of thousands of migrants each month are being allowed to work in the United States and forego wait time, due to President Joe Biden’s CBP One app. The phone application allows migrants to immediately apply for work authorization and bypass required wait time, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

According to DHS when migrants enter through the phone app, the employment authorization document allows them to legally work in the U.S.

If migrants don’t utilize CBP One and enter the country illegally with an asylum claim, they must wait 150 days to apply for a work permit and an additional 30 days to receive one, a Biden administration official recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Roughly 16% of working-age migrants who entered the country using CBP One have applied for work authorization, according to the White House.

Federal data shows between January and July, over 188,500 migrants scheduled CBP One entry appointments at several ports along the southern border.

Former Acting Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration Lora Ries told the Daily Caller that the app only attracts more illegal immigration. With the CBP One program in place, illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border has continued to surge, jumping from roughly 99,000 encounters in June to more than 132,000 in July, followed by more than 177,000 in August.

“That’s all that these aliens want is work authorization. They don’t care about getting asylum protection. They don’t care about getting some other document. I will say illegal aliens want five things: they want to enter the U.S., they want to stay here, they want to work here, they want to send money home and they want to bring family here. And this administration is letting them enter, letting them stay and letting them work,” said Ries, who now serves as the director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

Immigration

NYC Mayor Adams’ budget cuts slash total number of police and education funds

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2 weeks ago

November 17, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

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“No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will only be the beginning,” said New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams about his decision to make budget cuts as a result of the overwhelming migrant crisis.

However, those who will suffer from budget cuts to the city’s services to offset the cost of dealing with the ever-increasing number of migrants are those that are in place to make the city better.

“The cuts will see police freeze hiring and bring the total number of police officers below 30,000. It would further slash the education budget by $1 billion over two years and affect a litany of other agencies” reports Just The News.

Albeit, Adams admitted: “In all my time in government, this is probably one of the most painful exercises I’ve gone through.” More than 110,000 migrants have arrived in New York City over the past year, including roughly 13,000 sent from Texas by GOP Governor Greg Abbott as part of his ongoing bussing plan to send new arrivals to the U.S. to sanctuary cities.

However, similar to other leaders of sanctuary cities, Adams is unwilling to put his money where his mouth is. In September, Adams warned that the crisis would “destroy New York City” and begged the federal government to pay for his mess.

“I’m gonna tell you something, New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams said at the time. “The federal government needs to do its job. We need the federal government, the Congress members, the Senate and the president to do their job: close the borders,” said Adams’ advisor Ingrid Lewis Martin insisted in early October. “And until you close the borders, you need to come on with a full-on decompression strategy where you can take all of our migrants and move them through our 50 states.”