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The Biden administration is reportedly considering granting legal status and a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants admitted into the country under more lax border policies.
A potential plan would provide work permits and protections from deportation to those with American citizen spouses via immigration parole authority.
“The plan under consideration by the White House would give work permits and deportation protections to certain [illegal] immigrants through the immigration parole authority, as long as they have spouses who are American citizens,” one report noted.
The policy — which comes as Biden faces low approval ratings, in part due to his disastrous border policies — “could also make beneficiaries eligible for permanent U.S. residency and eventually even citizenship, by helping them clear hurdles in U.S. law,” the report added.
This could eventually make them eligible for permanent residency and citizenship.
The policy aims to address “broken immigration system” issues but has not been finalized.
It comes as Biden faces criticism over the border crisis that escalated under his open border policies, with estimates of over 10 million unlawful crossings.
His recent executive order was called weak by experts and critics given its limitations, while new memos instructed border agents to secretly release Eastern Hemisphere migrants into the U.S. interior rather than deport most of them.
Border Patrol agents were given instructions which “contradict[] what senior Biden administration officials told reporters in a call on Tuesday would be the case for migrants from Eastern Hemisphere countries who traveled through multiple countries without seeking asylum in order to reach the U.S., referred to as extra-hemispheric migrants,” The Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli wrote.
