Obama Significantly Expands Central American Amnesty Program – IOTW Report

Obama Significantly Expands Central American Amnesty Program

FAIRUS: With his major executive amnesty programs thwarted by the courts and “comprehensive” immigration reform dead on Capitol Hill, President Obama announced a significant expansion to another backdoor amnesty program known as the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program. The decision to allow more people from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to enter the country by circumventing the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) sends a clear signal that President Obama is determined to unilaterally admit as many foreign nationals as possible before his term expires.

The Obama administration announced the original CAM program in November 2014, supposedly to stop the surge of unaccompanied alien minors (UAMs) from Central America from crossing the southern border unlawfully. (See FAIR Legislative Update, Nov. 18, 2014) Under the program, the federal government grants either refugee or parole status to children (under age 21) and adults from Central America when a “qualifying parent” who is “lawfully present” in the U.S. files an application for refugee status on behalf of their child currently living in one of the three countries. (USCIS CAM Guidelines) The guidelines provide that a “qualifying parent” may be an alien with (1) permanent resident status; (2) temporary protected status; (3) parole (after one year); (4) deferred action (after one year); (5) deferred enforced departure; or (6) withholding of removal. (Id.; see FAIR Legislative Update, Feb. 18, 2015) Importantly, setting “lawful presence” as the criteria for the sponsor covers broad categories of illegal aliens granted amnesty through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) [subject to U.S. v. Texaslitigation], as well as the President’s other backdoor amnesty policies. This means the Obama administration unilaterally created a program to allow illegal aliens to use the laws of the United States governing refugees and parole to bring in their relatives living outside the U.S.

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5 Comments on Obama Significantly Expands Central American Amnesty Program

  1. OBAMA!

    EXPORTS JOBS!

    IMPORTS POVERTY!

    95 MILLION NOT WORKING!

    $20 TRILLION OWED!

    PERFECT FORMULA FOR COLLOSSAL ECONOMIC DISASTER TO HAND OFF FOR TRUMP’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE!!

  2. GREAT-lets bring more TB, Zika, Ebola, Dengue, and other disease to Amerika!
    AND HELLO Killary will continue to add these future dumocrats.
    AND oh by the way, you don’t need an ID to vote either.
    VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN!!!!!

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