Thread: Obama admin. to allow thousands of Haitians into U.S. without visas

Obama admin. to allow thousands of Haitians into U.S. without visas

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Friday, October 17, 2014

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians to immigrate to the U.S. without a visa.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said the administration’s Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program — which will allow thousands of Haitians awaiting a U.S. visa to enter the country and legally apply for work permits — is “an irresponsible overreach of the executive branch’s authority.”

“Which countries are next on President Obama’s list?” Mr. Grassley said. “Will there by medical screenings before entry? Will work permits be granted automatically? How will this affect American workers?”

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the branch of the Department of Homeland Security that handles immigration benefits cases, announced Friday the program to unite Haitians already living in the U.S. with family members abroad will ramp up in 2015.

At that time the State Department’s National Visa Center will begin notifying families who may be eligible to take part in the program. Those immigrants will allowed to apply for work permits while waiting for issuance of their permanent visas.

The agency said the program will expedite “safe, legal and orderly migration.”

“The rebuilding and development of a safe and economically strong Haiti is a priority for the United States. The Haitian Family Reunification Parole program promotes a fundamental underlying goal of our immigration system — family reunification,” said Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. “It also supports broader U.S. goals for Haiti’s reconstruction and development by providing the opportunity for certain eligible Haitians to safely and legally immigrate sooner to the United States.”
Roughly 100,000 Haitians already approved to come to the U.S. are currently awaiting visas, The Associated Press reported.

Mr. Grassley, whose Senate committee has jurisdiction over immigration policy, predicted the number of Haitians who would come to the U.S. under the program would likely exceed that estimate, calling it “likely just the beginning of the president’s unilateral and executive actions on immigration.”

“Parole is meant for humanitarian assistance on a case-by-case basis,” he said. “The president’s continued push to circumvent Congressional authority and ignore the rule of law sets a bad precedent for the future.”

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No reunification for the Irish, the South African or the Canadians?

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians to immigrate to the U.S. without a visa.

Okay, this is it. The Executive Branch is insane. It's time to pass a moratorium on all immigration immediately. Just stop it all, right here, right now, for 10 years. Introduce a 1 sentence bill, rush it through committee and get it to the House and Senate floors today. This is madness. A national security crisis of monumental proportions that harms every aspect of our country from welfare to jobs, culture to education, health care to neighborhoods, housing to prices, physical security to crime, all of it. Pure and simple. Stop it now.

We are going to have to put a stop to this.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

We are going to have to put a stop to this.

W

The only way to stop it is with a 1 sentence Congressional moratorium that can't be disputed in court that terminates all discretionary powers of the Executive Branch, all rights to issue permits, licenses, visas, green cards, work authorizations, asylums, amnesty, all of it. Shut it down. Shut it all down, including the 1.3 million green cards and visas that Congress usually authorizes. Stop it all, across the board.