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Democrats are still looking for a political defense against the border chaos unleashed under President Biden.

The latest strategy involves Democrats praising Mr. Biden for his recent executive actions and contrasting them with Republicans in Congress who scuttled legislation the Dems claim could have improved the situation in a significant way.

On Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a top Biden ally, looked to shift the publics attention away from the president and onto the longstanding failure and lack of courage of congressional Democrats and Republicans to find common ground on a solution.

This inaction that we continue to see to get any form of sensible immigration policy done is impacting all of us, because all of us in local jurisdictions deal with the consequences of this, Mr. Moore said Wednesday on Fox & Friends. I dont put blame on a singular political party.

The boiling concerns over border security once again landed on Mr. Moores doorstep after police in Harford County announced over the weekend they had charged a 23-year-old illegal immigrant who entered the country on Mr. Bidens watch with the rape and killing of Rachel Morin, a mother of five who was killed on a hiking trail in August.

The high-profile killings of Americans by illegal immigrants who entered the country after Mr. Biden took office are creating political problems for the presidents reelection campaign as well as Democrats across the country including in states far away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

In recent interviews, Mr. Moore has tried to diffuse the political bomb by pinning the blame on Mr. Trumps opposition to bipartisan immigration legislation that Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma negotiated over months, only to see most GOP lawmakers line up against it because it would allow as many as 5,000 migrants to flood across the border daily.

Mr. Moore, however, turned elusive Wednesday after host Brian Kilmeade pointed out the legislation would not have prevented the illegal immigrant accused of killing Ms. Morin from entering the country in 2023.

In response, the governor derided both parties in Congress, saying their stalemate over immigration is allowing people in my state to become victims.

Mr. Trump and Republicans have been more direct, saying Mr. Bidens reckless policies have opened the door for illegal immigrants to rape, kidnap and kill Americans.

At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Mr. Trump lamented the deaths of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant while jogging at the University of Georgia, and Ms. Morin.

This monster should have never been allowed into our country, and if I was president he would never have been able to come in, Mr. Trump said of Ms. Morins accused killer, sparking chants of USA! USA! When I am elected we will begin removing these criminals these horrible people from our midst and we are going to do it immediately.

Mr. Trump said the contrast is clear: Joe Biden wants to be the president for illegal aliens, but I will be the president for law-abiding Americans.

Looking to dig himself out of a political hole, Mr. Biden recently released a proclamation seeking to curtail the number of asylum claims made at the U.S. border.

According to a YouGov/Economist survey released after Mr. Biden announced the move, the effort is not turning the tide: 64% disapprove of his handling of immigration and 29% approve.

Looking to stem the bleeding with his base, Mr. Biden this week announced a program that would make it easier for half a million illegal immigrants to receive green cards if theyve lived in the U.S. for years and are married to citizens.

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The Biden administration has let 2 million illegal immigrants speed through a system that is supposed to limit entry into the United States on a case-by-case basis, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

The so-called parole system, which offers Social Security numbers and worker permits, has spun through one illegal immigrant roughly every 28 seconds, according to an analysis of the new data conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies.

In the first nine months of FY 2023, DHS paroled in nearly 870,000 facially inadmissible aliens with no legal right to be here one roughly every 28 seconds. That brings total Biden paroles to about two million, all under a restrictive authority Congress decreed be used only on a case-by-case basis, said Andrew Arthur, a former federal immigration judge now with CIS.

The new data were in a just-released December report on parole requests by migrants. Parole is granted to inadmissible individuals by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. According to the report, Parole allows a noncitizen who may be inadmissible, to enter, re-enter, or remain in the United States for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.

The numbers reviewed by Arthur, however, show wholesale parole being granted to wide swaths of illegal immigrants and further feed concerns that the Biden administration is ignoring immigration laws to let in millions of migrants despite overwhelming opposition by U.S. citizens.

Since the report was pulled together, thousands more have passed in through the system. Immigration officials, for example, said last month, Through the end of April 2024, 434,800 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans arrived lawfully on commercial flights and were granted parole.

Parole is supposed to be a tight system according to congressional rules, but the administration has ignored that to let illegal immigrants pour in, the former immigration judge said.

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Whats more, in many cases, the parolees do not face the types of hardship back home that the pathway was designed for, he said.

Parolees are flying in from 77 different nations, including countries as diverse as Fiji and Iceland, Australia and Egypt, for benefits under the program. Those aliens arent seeking protection from hostile home governments; theyre trading up for better economic opportunities, which in the case of the Cuban and Haitian parolees includes a full panoply of social-welfare benefits like Medicaid and food stamps all of which you, the taxpayer, are providing, Arthur said in his report.

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SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. -- A Santa Rosa County commissioner is attempting to send a strong message through a new resolution that "illegal aliens" are not welcome there.

It's proposed by commissioner James Calkins, who says he does support legal immigration. However, because of public safety issues caused by illegal immigrants, he says something needs to be done.

"I have gotten multiple, multiple messages, calls on what a problem this is starting to become in Santa Rosa County," Calkins said Thursday. "There have been car accidents, there has been crimes committed. It has just been a disaster."

The Pew Research Center says Florida was one of six states with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations at 900,000.

Calkins is pointing the finger at the Biden administration's immigration policies.

The resolution states, "the safety and security of the citizens of Santa Rosa County is of utmost importance and illegal immigration poses significant challenges to public safety, public health, and the economic well being of the community."

Calkins is hopeful the resolution will pass on Monday.

Grace Resendez McCaffery is the editor of Latino Media Gulf Coast and La Costa Latina Publication.

"With verbiage like this, with policies that look like this, with public conversations with this type of sentiment, it really does make for a dangerous situation that I don't know if anybody accounts for or cares about," she said. "I know I do."

"But to make a blanket statement that people just aren't welcome, it speaks volumes -- and it doesn't only affect undocumented immigrants," Resendez McCaffery said.

She fears that if this resolution passes, it could lead to people with bad intentions taking measures into their own hands to get rid of illegal immigrants. She gave an example from a 2019 mass shooting.

"I am originally from El Paso, Texas, where the Walmart shooting occurred," Resendez McCaffery said. "That was my neighborhood. Twenty-three people were killed in that store. Some of my classmates families were very affected by this. I had a classmate that worked in that store. I had another classmate who's uncle was killed and nobody could understand why. Nobody could make sense of it, and it comes back to talks like this. Conversations like this that really aren't conversations -- they're incitements against people that look like me."

Calkins says that would be illegal, unacceptable and wrong.

"Illegal means illegal," he said. "I would tell anybody that would try to use anything for wrong reasons that they will deal with law enforcement and law enforcement will not tolerate any illegal activity."

Resendez McCaffery questions if only illegal immigrants from south of the boarder are not welcome.

"If you don't look like me are you going to be questioned?" she said. "If you're from another country other than Latin America will you be questioned? Am I still going to be able to speak Spanish in Santa Rosa County or will that become a reason for people to look at me a certain way and make me feel unwelcomed, let me know that I'm unwelcomed?"

"It doesn't matter what race they are, color of their skin, any of that," Calkins says. "What matters is if they follow the law and that we welcome the legal immigrants. We welcome folks that wanna come here and contribute to our society, that don't commit crimes."

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A federal judge in Iowa halted the state's effort to enforce its own immigration laws on Monday.

The Iowa law would have allowed the state to file criminal charges against illegal immigrants who have outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the U.S.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Locher's block on enforcement is only temporary as the Iowa legislation is further litigated. Locher said he nevertheless believes the law will fail because federal immigration law supersedes that of states.

"As a matter of politics, the new legislation might be defensible. As a matter of constitutional law, it is not," Locher's ruling read. "Under binding Supreme Court precedent, Senate File 2340 is preempted in its entirety by federal law and thus is invalid under the Supremacy Clause."

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A federal judge in Iowa halted the state's effort to enforce its own immigration laws on Monday. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the "illegal re-entry" bill into law earlier this year. It followed similar legislation in Texas. Officials in both states have heavily criticized President Biden's handling of border policies.

Reynolds and Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said the state plans to appeal the ruling.

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"Iowa never would have had to pass this law to begin with if it werent for Bidens open borders," Bird said in a statement after the ruling. "Rather than suing Iowa for enforcing immigration laws, he should do his duty to secure the border."

Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the "illegal re-entry" bill into law earlier this year. It followed similar legislation in Texas. Officials in both states have heavily criticized President Biden's administration's handling of border policies. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Reynolds, meanwhile, argued that the Biden administration has left states "defenseless" against the "ongoing crisis at our southern border."

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"Plainly, the Biden administration is failing to do their job and enforce federal immigration laws allowing millions to enter and re-enter without any consequence or delay," she added.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Locher's ruled that Iowa's immigration law is blocked thanks to a 2015 Supreme Court ruling. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Iowa's law was due to take effect on July 1. The Justice Department has announced plans to go after a similar piece of legislation in Oklahoma in the coming weeks.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.

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Rodrigo Salazar is a man who entered the U.S. without a visa and has been living in the country without legal status ever since. Because of this, Rodrigo, who asked that we not use his or his wifes real names in order to protect their identity, cannot advance from low-paying jobs at restaurants and car washes.

His wife, Carmela, is a U.S. citizen, but she is also facing career limitations. Carmela doesnt feel safe moving to a place where she could get a higher-paying job. She worries that Rodrigos lack of legal status would be more obvious in a city with a smaller Latino population, which would put him at risk for arrest and deportation.

The entire Salazar family, including their two children, live with the constant fear of family separation if Rodrigo is deported.

Immigrants like Rodrigo, who are living in the U.S. without legal status but are married to U.S. citizens, will now have protection from deportation, President Joe Biden announced on June 18, 2024. In order to qualify, they must have arrived 10 or more years ago and be married to a U.S. citizen. Those who meet these criteria will be able to get work permits and can get on the pathway to citizenship while working and living in the U.S. legally.

The Biden administration estimates that about 500,000 immigrant spouses of citizens will be protected from deportation with this policy change. The policy will also apply to approximately 50,000 U.S. citizens stepchildren who are living in the U.S. without legal immigration status.

We are migration scholars who study mixed-citizenship marriages meaning some family members are citizens or have the legal right to stay in the U.S., while others do not and the consequences of being undocumented. Our research shows that when one family member lacks legal immigration status in the U.S., the family as a whole assumes an undocumented status.

When one family member cannot safely travel, work or access health care, all family members suffer. The opposite is also true. When a family member is able to shift from living without legal status in the U.S. to getting legal status, the lives of the entire family improve.

Generally, having an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen gives a foreign citizen the chance to live legally in the U.S. with permanent residency and a pathway to citizenship.

For most of the 20th century, all spouses of U.S. citizens who met the legal standards for qualified marital relationships were able to become citizens through a relatively straightforward process, but that changed in 1996.

A 1996 law called the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act imposed harsh penalties for people living in the U.S. without legal immigration status. One of the penalties is a 10-year bar to re-entry for anyone who has lived without a visa in the U.S. for one year or more. This ban goes into effect as soon as that individual leaves U.S. territory.

A consequence of this 1996 law was that getting a green card, which is an identity document that gives someone legal permanent residency in the country, became dependent on whether an immigrant entered and remained in the U.S. with or without a visa.

This change in the law produced a stark inequality in U.S. citizens ability to legally sponsor their immigrant spouses for permanent residency.

If an immigrant spouse of a U.S. citizen has overstayed a visa, this person can apply for legal immigration status through their spouse from within the U.S. In these cases, the spouse does not have to leave U.S. territory and is not subject to the 10-year ban.

In contrast, if a U.S. citizens spouse entered the U.S. without a visa or other legal permission, they must leave the country for the final step in their legal immigration application process. But when they leave the country, their 10-year ban automatically goes into effect.

This means that although every U.S. citizens spouse, including those lacking legal immigration status, technically qualifies for legal permanent residency, some of them will have to spend a decade or more outside the country before they can actually get a green card.

As a result, over the past few decades, millions of immigrants who were living in the U.S. without legal permission but were married to U.S. citizens have not gotten legal immigration status.

While the 10-year bar applies only to immigrants without legal status, in practice it also profoundly affects their citizen spouses, too.

In these cases, citizens married to immigrants without legal permission to be in the U.S. have two difficult options. They can resign themselves to a life of fear and limitations in the U.S., including the ever-present threat of their spouses deportation, or they can give up living in the U.S. altogether for a decade or more.

The Biden administration has connected this new executive action on families to its recent announcement that it will heighten restrictions for seeking asylum, which scholars have called a ban on asylum.

The administration said in a press release that it both wants to secure the border and expand lawful pathways to keep families together.

Under this new policy, immigrant spouses who entered the country without a visa before June 17, 2014, will be allowed to parole in place, which is similar to a policy that benefits military veterans immigrant spouses who lack legal immigration status in the U.S. Parole in place means that these immigrants will have authorization to work and increased protection from deportation.

Parole in place will also allow immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens to have their immigration applications processed within the U.S., whether they arrived with or without a visa. This means they will no longer need to leave the country for 10 years or more if they entered the U.S. without a visa.

Having the legal right to work in the U.S. will allow these immigrant spouses to find jobs that better match their education and skills. Some estimates suggest that this could increase an immigrants wages anywhere from 14% to 40% more than what they currently earn.

The executive action will also yield economic benefits for the communities where mixed-citizenship families live.

Economic analyses measuring the impact of expanding work authorization and access to citizenship predict that this will create new jobs, boost incomes across communities, increase local and federal tax revenues and encourage ongoing economic growth.

As scholars of migration, we believe that this executive action is an important step toward guaranteeing that U.S. citizens who marry immigrants do not end up experiencing negative consequences because their spouses cannot legally live, work or vote in the U.S. It will also prevent the de facto deportation of U.S. citizens alongside their noncitizen spouses.

In essence, this policy change benefits American families and protects the rights of U.S. citizens to marry the person they love, keep their families together and even live in their own country. Beyond helping families, this change will have far-reaching economic benefits for the communities and country where they live.

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