Victor Davis Hanson: We Need A Travel Ban, Now

Posted • January 12, 2025: Like a drunk that has been cut off at the bar, the Biden Administration is being shown to the door by the American people. Like most drunks, Biden is making a belligerent scene, yelling and screaming as he leaves. The man who had promised a peaceful transition of power is doing everything he can to make the incoming administration's transition as difficult as possible. From selling off border wall materials for pennies on the dollar to offshore drilling bans, a defiant Biden continues to obstruct as many of Trump's planned policies as he can. Biden's Border Chief Alejandro Mayorkas announced the latest move, extending deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals. Biden announced he is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Venezuela, Sudan and Ukraine. TPS grants protection from deportation and work permits for illegal aliens living in the U.S.

The move will extend Temporary Protected Status for approximately eight hundred thousand migrants from El Salvadore, Venezuela, Sudan, and Ukraine for an additional eighteen months beyond their current expiration dates. While the move is seen as an effort to hamper the incoming administration's promised deportation plans, the Department of Homeland Security has cited safety reasons for the TPS extensions. […] Like many of the Biden administration's last-minute moves, the extension of TPS seems intended to hamper the incoming administration's ability to implement its planned policies. In practice, it may amount to little more than a virtue signal. Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has indicated that Trump's deportation plans will initially focus on illegal aliens who have committed crimes. Migrants with any felony or multiple misdemeanor convictions are already prohibited from receiving TPS protection. The rule itself can easily be overturned once Trump takes office.

Once confirmed, the incoming Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, can reverse this extension. Senator Jim Banks has also introduced legislation that would require Congress to approve TPS in 12-month terms, which, if passed, would eliminate the 18-month extension. -- ANOTHER WAY that the Biden admin cares more about illegal aliens than U.S. citizens. With less than a month to go before inauguration, the Biden administration is trying to block the incoming Trump administration from deporting over half a million illegal aliens who broke the law. The Department of Homeland Security is extending Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan, according to Axios. Under TPS, migrant who entered the U.S. illegally (yes, a crime), cannot be deported, may apply for a work permit and asylum. Millions of undocumented individuals from terrorist-friendly and hostile countries, like Venezuela and Sudan, have entered the US illegally over the past four years.

As Victor Davis Hanson points out, these countries do not provide the U.S. government with all the necessary information to perform thorough background checks. And now the Biden administration is letting these unvetted individuals stay in the U.S. scot-free. -- Victor Davis Hanson talks about the unprecedented level and state of illegal immigration in the US, and solutions to restore American sovereignty. Some of the solutions mentioned include: “I think that whatever your status is, if you are sending money back to a foreign country from the United States that is singled out as a source of illegal immigration—Mexico, Latin America, for example—then the United States government should put a 10 to 20 or 30% tax on all remittances.” - “We’re the only country in the world that gives unqualified citizenship to people who happen to be born here and then anchor an entire family. Why not also put a 10, 20 year ban on people who have been detained here illegally and stop them from applying for a green card or legal readmissions for 20 years, that would be a very powerful deterrent.” (…)

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Fox News: Mayorkas extends deportation shield for eye-popping number of immigrants ahead of Trump admin
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-extends-deportation-shield-eye-popping-number-immigrants-ahead-trump-admin