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Under pressure from New York City, the Biden admin gives more Venezuelan migrants Temporary Protected Status
The decision gives more than 200,000 migrants the right to obtain work authorization and live in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
“ . . newer migrants may mistakenly believe they too will be granted work authorization and temporary relief from deportation. . ”
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And therein lies one of the major dilemmas with immigration policy. If you make one exception for humanitarian reasons, people may believe you’ll also make an exception in their case.
However—
If we’re going to say we’re a major player on the world stage, and of course we are, then we need to shoulder a big part of the load when there’s a crisis, just saying.
And then I’ll say that even Pres. Reagan signed an immigration bill in 1986 which included an amnesty component. And a solid package will probably include a combo of better border control, decent guest worker program, and some amnesty component.
Although today we might have a 4th component—
And that’s a E-Verify program with teeth, and put a few corporate executives in jail when they don’t practice due diligence.
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