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(April 27, 2023, Washington, D.C.) The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in response to the Department of Homeland Securitys plan to deal with an expected surge of illegal migration when Title 42ends.

For months, the Biden administration has been pressed to present a plan to deal with even greater surges of illegal immigration after Title 42 is formally ended on May 11. Today, the Department of Homeland Security finally rolled out a plan that amounts to the same failed policies that resulted in record levels of illegal immigration, only onsteroids.

Todays announcement by the Biden administration, billed as sweeping new actions to manage regional migration, does not even make a pretense that it is designed to prevent or deter even larger numbers of migrants from entering the country. Rather, it is a massive scheme to process migrants and disburse them around the country as quickly aspossible.

The effort to manage even greater levels of illegal migration further abuses parole authority to admit people who do not have visas and creates new regional processing centers that serve as assembly lines to move people into the United States. By the administrations own estimates, the number of migrants attempting to enter the country when Title 42 ends could reach as high as 18,000 a day or about 540,000 permonth.

DHSs plan claims that migrants who cross the border illegally will be subject to expedited removal, but that is a hollow threat that is designed to convince the American public that they are attempting to enforce immigration laws, which they have adamantly refused to do since the day President Biden took office. It is not a plan to deter illegal entry. In reality, it is an open invitation to foreign nationals to make specious claims for asylum, under which they will be allowed to enter the United States while they wait as long as ten years for a hearing on theircases.

The plan also includes expanded abuse of presidential parole authority to admit people from a growing number of countries who have family members in the United States. Parole is not a lawful pathway for immigrants. We already have thatits called avisa.

The DHS plan amounts to a massive and illegal scheme designed to accommodate unlimited numbers of migrants in defiance of the departments statutory obligation to deter and prevent illegal immigration. It is the same failed strategy that has already resulted in more than 7 million illegal entries in just the first 26 months of this administration. Expanding these policies, as the DHS plan proposes, will do irreparable damage to the country that will be felt for generations tocome.

Contact: Ron Kovach, 202-328-7004 orrkovach@fairus.org.

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