Timeline of Biden Immigration Policies

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This post is a timeline of the Biden regime policies to move people on an immigration conveyer belt into the United States.

January, 2021:

  • President Biden terminated the National Emergency at the Southwest border (Proclamation 9844), thereby halting emergency construction of a border wall.
  • President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) further entrenching the unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. With his action, President Biden directed the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, “to preserve and fortify DACA”, signaling to illegal aliens that his Administration supports amnesty and that illegal aliens need not fear coming to the U.S. or worry about immigration enforcement.
  • President Biden unveiled the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., demonstrating intent to reward illegal border crossers with a path to citizenship.
  • President Biden revoked Trump-era Executive Order that was designed to ensure there was meaningful enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
  • The Administration issued an Executive action ending limitations and restrictions against immigration from certain countries associated with terrorism.
  • The Biden Administration announced a 100-day moratorium on deportations and immigration enforcement, effectively providing amnesty to criminal and other removable aliens and sending the signal the Biden Administration would not enforce the law. The Administration also announced interim immigration enforcement guidelines that signaled to illegal aliens that they do not have to worry about the possibility of deportation.

February, 2021:

March, 2021:

  • Biden Administration announced reinstatement of the Central American Minors (CAM) program, an Obama-era parole program that allowed citizens and aliens—including illegal aliens—to bypass the family-based immigration laws adopted by Congress and sponsor family members El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to come to the United States.
  • DHS Secretary Mayorkas delivered remarks effectively explaining the border is open for illegal immigration by stating DHS’s focus would be on “processing” illegal aliens—in other words catch-and-release and the creation of new “lawful pathways.”
  • DHS began issuing illegal alien border crossers a Notice to Report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as opposed to the standard Notice to Appear (NTA) in U.S. immigration court. The NTR policy allows illegal aliens to simply be released into the U.S. and relies on them to self-report to ICE at a later date.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) issued guidance rolling back requirements for background checks on adults in the household of a UAC sponsor.
  • March 21, 2021 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks to Martha Raddatz: Mayorkas states “Because the entire system under United States law that has been in place throughout administrations of both parties was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.” “when I say it takes time, I mean it because we’re dealing with a dismantled system and we did not have the ordinary safe and just transition from one administration to another. And so we are executing on our plans.” “We are executing the plan that we have and let me share with you because we will succeed and when we look back at this time however difficult it has been we will get through it.” “We administered the laws as they were intended and we lived up to our values and our principles as a nation and that is what we are accomplishing, and that is not what was done in the prior administration.”
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April 30, 2021:

June, 2021:

  • The Biden Administration announced expansion of the Central American Minors (CAM) program to broaden the list of illegal aliens who can sponsor family members through the program, including illegal aliens who claim asylum.
  • Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded the Trump-era decision In Matter of L-E-A-, thereby expanding asylum eligibility to allow nuclear or immediate familial relationships to be treated as a “particular social group.”
  • Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded the Trump-era decision in Matter of A-B I and A-B II, thereby expanding asylum eligibility to include gender and domestic relationships as certain social groups, reverting to policy under in Matter of A-R-C-G.

July, 2021:

  • The United States Border Patrol (USBP or BP) released at least 50,000 aliens without giving them a “Notice to Appear” (a court date), instead advising them to self-report to ICE on their own. Unsurprisingly, 87% of aliens fail to report.

August, 2021:

August, 2021:

September, 2021:

  • Biden issues an executive order dated September 9 that gave federal contractors until December 8 2021 to comply with vaccine mandate, this injected a clause into government contracts and contract-like instruments requiring full vaccination.
Biden administration gives federal contractors until Dec. 8 to comply with vaccine mandate
Like the vaccine mandate for employees, federal contractors must also show proof of vaccination to their employer. The Biden administration’s vaccine policies also apply to federal contractors working from home, as well as employees working for a covered contractor but not directly on specific government project.

However illegal immigrants entering the United States did not have any vaccination requirements.

  • September 10 2021 – Jen Psaki, White House spokesperson was asked; Reporter: “you’re trying to require anybody with a job or anybody who goes to school to get the Covid-19 vaccine but you are not requiring that of migrants that continue walking across the southern border into the country” Psaki: “well look our objective is to get as many people vaccinated across the country as humanly possible and so the president’s announcement yesterday was an effort to empower businesses to give businesses the tools to protect their workforces that’s exactly what we did but certainly we want everybody to get vaccinated and more people are vaccinated whether they are migrants or whether they are workers protects more people in the United States” Reporter: it’s a requirement for people at a business with more than 100 people it’s not a requirement for migrants of the southern border” Psaki: “that’s correct go ahead”

Fiscal Year 2021:

October, 2021:

November, 2021:

  • The Biden Administration formally created a program that included alternatives to detention (ATD) plus parole, resulting in “catch and release” for hundreds of thousands of aliens into the U.S. interior after they were encountered at the border (338,000 aliens were released in Fiscal Year 2022 alone) under this program.

April, 2022:

  • ICE Principal Legal Advisor issued memorandum promoting termination of cases in immigration court and directing ICE Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) trial attorneys to comb through their cases to determine whether aliens would be considered a “priority” for removal under the Biden “enforcement priorities.”
  • Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visits Panama “The US and Panama signed a migration arrangement later Tuesday “to improve migration management, expand stabilization efforts, and increase access to legal pathways and protection for those in the region.” see update ↓

(update. March, 2024: drone footage)

This was recorded on March 2, 2024, it shows the United Nations immigration camp in Darien, Panama, locally called San Vicente and also called China Camp. It is the same facility that Secretary Mayorkas visited in April 2022 to direct its expansion. 

June, 2022: Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection

“We, the Heads of State and Government of Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, the Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, America and Uruguay…We are committed to protecting the safety and dignity of all migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status, and respecting their human rights and fundamental freedoms.  We intend to cooperate closely to facilitate safe, orderly, humane, and regular migration and, as appropriate, promote safe and dignified returns, consistent with national legislation, the principle of non-refoulement, and our respective obligations under international law.“

One word that is notably missing from the list of adjectives (“safe, orderly, humane, and regular”) before the noun “migration” is “legal”.

August, 2022

September, 2022:

October, 2022:

  • DHS finalized a rule to “fortify DACA”, which declares DACA recipients as “lawfully present” and grants them employment documents despite ongoing litigation.

December, 2022:

  • The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the State of Arizona in order to force Arizona to remove shipping containers placed to close gaps in the border wall.
  • Secretary of State Anthony Blinken signs an agreement with a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) called TENT PARTNERSHIP FOR REFUGEES. This NGO comprises more than 400 major multinational companies committed to hiring “refugees” The agreement lauds that it will: “expand economic opportunity for refugees” in the private sector with employers such as RedRoof Inn, Royal Farms, Shopify, CSX, Delta Airlines, DoorDash, and so on.A Bloomberg report showing how meatpacker Tyson Foods Inc. is set to hire tens of thousands of migrants via Tent Partnership. Tyson already employs 42,000 migrants among its 120,000 US workforce.

    “We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them,” said Garrett Dolan, who leads Tyson’s efforts to eliminate employment barriers such as immigration status.

    “We’re recognizing there’s not a lot of people that are going to be working labor-manufacturing jobs that are American,” Dolan said, adding a large portion of new hires “are going to come from refugees and immigrants, so we’re now in the business of strategically thinking that through.“

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LIVE: Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes remarks on Tent Partnership for Refugees

January 2023: Declaration of North America (DNA)

“Today, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Joseph R. Biden, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City for the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS). The leaders are determined to fortify our region’s security, prosperity, sustainability and inclusiveness through commitments across six pillars: 1) diversity, equity, and inclusion; 2) climate change and the environment; 3) competitiveness; 4) migration and development; 5) health; and 6) regional security.“

Countries such as the Guyana and Uruguay are not intended destinations for the hundreds of thousands of migrants moving through the Americas — the United States is.

The DNA continues: “Since June, Mexico, the United States and Canada have collectively welcomed record numbers of migrants and refugees from the Western Hemisphere under new and expanded labor and humanitarian programs.”

There is a lot to unpack in that one sentence but suffice it to say that few if any “migrants and refugees” are headed to Canada, whereas to the extent that they are being “welcomed” in Mexico, it is under the proviso that they keep going north.

The verb “welcomed” reveals that the intention is not to dissuade or deter foreign nationals, instead – Biden, AMLO and Trudeau affirm “joint commitment to safe, orderly, and humane migration under the Los Angeles Declaration and other relevant multilateral frameworks”.

This, the DNA explains, includes “providing protection to refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants” and “assisting host communities and promoting migrant and refugee integration”.

January 2023:

  • CBP changed CBP One app to allow border crossers to schedule online appointments, expanding the number of aliens allowed into the United States.
  • The Biden Administration began abusing statutory parole authority under INA 212(d)(5) by creating a categorical parole program for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Parole was intended by Congress to be used sparingly and only on a “case by case” basis, yet DHS continues to create and administer categorical parole programs to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to classes of aliens.

March, 2023:

April, 2023:

May, 2023:

  • The Biden Administration terminated use of Title 42 policy expulsion authority.
  • The evening that Title 42 was ended, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken went on PBS and said that there would be a crackdown on illegal crossings, watch: “...shared sense of responsibility that we’re trying to build across the hemisphere” “we’re also working with these countries to strengthen their own asylum systems to strengthen the protections that they offer to migrants as well as to strengthen opportunity so that people who may choose to avail themselves of asylum in a third country have something to go to and something to look toward.” “I cite that simply as one example of work that we’re doing with countries across the hemisphere to strengthen the protections that they offer, uh, to strengthen their own asylum systems” “even as we are working to expand legal pathways to this country.”
  • The Biden Administration ended the DNA testing program used to verify that adults who crossed the border with a child and claimed to be related to that child, are in fact related. Ending the program promotes not only illegal immigration, but also child exploitation and trafficking.

July, 2023:

August, 2023:

September, 2023:

  • The Biden Administration promulgated a proposed rule to reverse Trump-era policy and allow Immigration Judges to administratively close or dismiss removal proceedings without any action (something not allowed by statute), resulting in no decision denying asylum.

October, 2023:

  • The Biden Administration issued new rules on UACs that fails to prevent the release of illegal alien children to strangers, fails to facilitate age determinations, and fails to collect immigration information on sponsors. All of this will encourage trafficking of children, including by the cartels.

November, 2023: VIDEO, migrant caravan

Efrain González is an American journalist who joined a migrant caravan to report on its logistics complexity. Someone is giving these groups GPS coordinates for exactly where to go.

November, 2023: VIDEO, Chuck Schumer

“get a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented there are here”.

DREAMers are the bait, while a full and total amnesty is the hook.

December, 2023:

January, 2024:

VIDEO: DEMOCRATS denying a border crisis

March 2024

  • The Center for Immigration Studies filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, learning that U.S. Customs and Border Protection approved secretive flights that last year (2023) alone ferried hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the past year, all pre-approved on a cell phone app. 

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  • CBP will not disclose the names of the 43 U.S. airports that have received 320,000 inadmissible aliens from January through December 2023, nor the foreign airports from which they departed. The agency’s lawyers have cited a general “law enforcement exception” without elaborating – until recently – on how releasing airport locations would harm public safety beyond citing “the sensitivity of the information,” claiming the public can’t know the receiving airports because those hundreds of thousands of CBP-authorized arrivals have created such “operational vulnerabilities” at airports that “bad actors” could undermine law enforcement efforts to “secure the United States border” if they knew the volume of CBP One traffic processed at each port of entry.
  • The direct flight program is in addition to another one that gives CBP One users a green light into the U.S. That program, the report said, “has brought in another 420,000 immigrants from nearly 100 nations from May 2021 through December 2023.”

CONCLUSION: The staggering costs

Few studies exist to demonstrate the comprehensive scope of the overall federal and state costs of the ongoing crisis and mass illegal immigration. Instead, Americans must rely on a patchwork of federal and state records, media reports, and other publicly available information to gain even limited insights into the costs illegal aliens represent.

THE HISTORIC DOLLAR COSTS OF DHS SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS’ OPEN-BORDERS POLICIES COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY MAJORITY REPORT PHASE 4 INTERIM REPORT NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The range of costs inflicted by Mayorkas’ border crisis cover everything from emergency medical care to increased demands on law enforcement to housing and shelter benefits for illegal aliens.
Many additional costs involve devoting resources to many uses Americans would never think of, as this report will demonstrate.