President Joe Biden’s administration is quietly operating a behind-the-scenes program amounting to “mass amnesty” for hundreds of thousands of migrants, according to data and insider accounts.
Since 2022, over 350,000 asylum cases filed by illegal immigrants have been dismissed by the Biden administration so long as the applicants had no U.S. criminal records or were not deemed threats. This terminates their cases without actually adjudicating asylum claims, effectively allowing them to legally remain in the U.S. indefinitely without monitoring or deportation.
“This is just a massive amnesty under the guise of prosecutorial discretion,” Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge, told The New York Post. “You’re basically allowing people who don’t have a right to be in the United States to be here indefinitely.”
The number of closed migrant asylum cases has skyrocketed since Biden took office and ended former President Donald Trump’s effective border policies like the Remain in Mexico program.
Under Trump in 2020, only around 4,700 asylum cases were closed in this manner, compared to well over 100,000 annually under Biden – a massive increase that has exacerbated the border crisis.
Since taking office in 2021, Biden’s administration has allowed over 350,000 illegals to remain indefinitely in the United States — more than the population of Orlando, Florida.
“They’re shaving more than 100,000 people a year off the asylum backlog, which makes the administration look better,” one ICE official told The Post. But it creates new problems when some of those illegal immigrants with closed cases go on to commit crimes, forcing ICE to restart lengthy deportation proceedings.
Data shows 77% of asylum seekers under Biden have been allowed to stay in the United States – nearly 500,000 out of 648,000 total applicants arriving during his tenure so far.
The administration is effectively enabling what critics call a mass amnesty program for illegal immigrants taking advantage of overwhelmed asylum systems Biden has further crippled by reversing Trump’s get-tough policies.
“They are removing cases from the legal immigration system and no longer requiring migrants to check in, amounting to a policy of mass amnesty that undermines efforts to control illegal immigration,” said one former Trump official.
As the border crisis rages, the Biden’s secretive case mass amnesty highlights how his disastrous policy decisions that have let the U.S.-Mexico border become so unmanageable.