Democratic senators are calling on President Joe Biden to provide additional deportation protections for Palestinians before he leaves office, but border hawks say such a step has clear national security concerns. They argue that there are risks involved.
Democratic Party wrote a letter The letter was written to the outgoing president in early December, asking him to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to the Palestinian territories. The Biden administration had already granted Deferred Deportation (DED) to some Palestinians in the United States since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, but lawmakers say the action has not gone far enough and that Palestinians are not being forcibly removed. They argued that they were seeking a more certain guarantee that it would not happen. From the country. (Related article: ‘Notorious international fugitive’: ICE deports drug trafficker arrested in military shootout)
“Joe Biden barely knows what day it is, while pro-Iran, pro-Hamas staffers bring thousands of unvetted Palestinians to the US before his term ends,” said Rep. Ryan of Montana. They are trying to complicate policy.” Zinke spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation at the request of Democratic lawmakers. “We already know that Hamas has infiltrated refugees and placed terrorists in civilian organizations to plan future attacks.”
Zinke, like other border hawks in Washington, D.C., has expressed concern about the potential presence of extremist elements among the Palestinian population and has previously drafted legislation such as: ban completely Palestinians entering the United States Nevertheless, Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia have warned the Biden administration that this particular group of foreigners has publicly called for the rollout of deportation protections for
TOP SHOT – Israeli soldiers deploy artillery shells at a position in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023, as fighting continues between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP, Getty Images)
“For more than a year, Israeli bombing and large-scale ground operations in the Gaza Strip have killed more than 43,000 Palestinians and destroyed most of its core civilian infrastructure,” the Democratic Party said in a Dec. 12 letter. It became dysfunctional,” he wrote. Terrorist attack on civilians on October 7th. “Since October 7, 2023, stability in the West Bank has also deteriorated. Violent settlers are increasingly destroying homes, stealing livestock, destroying olive groves, and killing hundreds of people, including children. Palestinian civilians have been injured or killed.
“The existence of this ‘ongoing armed conflict’ clearly ‘poses a serious threat’ to the personal safety of Palestinians forced to return home,” the letter continued.
TPS and DED are similar in that both designations provide a certain level of deportation protection and work privileges to foreign nationals residing in the United States. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. However, DED is an administrative stay of removal made by the President with no legal basis, whereas TPS can be done at the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security and has legal authority.
Biden granted DED to some Palestinians in the United States in February 2024, but Democrats say the action did not go far enough. Immigration hard-liners, however, point out that the Palestinian territories are rife with members of designated terrorist organizations, making it difficult to properly vet immigrants from the region, and that such actions pose a national security threat. It raises a question.
“Every time our government provides TPS to citizens of terrorist-run pseudo-states like Palestine, it endangers the public safety and national security of the United States,” says the Immigration Reform Law Institute. said Matt O’Brien, head of research. DCNF. “It is impossible to scrutinize Palestinians.”
“And Palestine itself is controlled by a complex web of shadowy terrorist groups, many of which act as proxies for countries explicitly hostile to the United States, such as Iran and Syria,” O’Brien continued. “Palestinian officials are not the kind of people who would share derogatory information about immigrants with the United States. In fact, they usually have a vested interest in hiding it, so they secretly spy on terrorists and spies. I can send it in.”
Questions have arisen regarding Palestinian refugees in the United States since Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, which sparked the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Internal federal documents leaked to the media in April show President Biden is even considering options for how to provide permanent safe haven for Palestinians living in war-torn Gaza. Ta.
Gaza, Gaza Strip – February 4: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, Abu Tarr (not pictured), addresses the media in Gaza City. Masked gunmen attended a press conference. On February 4, 2008, it claimed joint responsibility with its military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. Suicide bombing at a shopping center in the Israeli desert town of Dimona leaves members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) dead. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
Shortly after news of a possible Biden plan surfaced, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, led a delegation of 34 Republican senators to call on the White House to put on the brakes. in their letters Republican lawmakers told Biden that the incredibly large number of Gazans currently supporting Hamas and the many logistical challenges involved in importing migrants from the war-torn region on the other side of the world. He pointed out that obstacles make it nearly impossible to conduct a proper review. All of them.
Opinion poll released in March by the Center for Palestine Policy Research found it A whopping 71% of Palestinians supported Hamas’ October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians. Additionally, only 5% of Palestinians surveyed said they believed the October 7 attack was a war crime.
TPS has become a very popular tool for allowing foreign nationals from countries experiencing turmoil to remain in the United States. As of September 30, approximately 1,095,115 people in 17 countries enjoy the TPS designation. According to New report from the Congressional Research Service.
President-elect Donald Trump, who won a landslide election victory after campaigning on tough immigration policies, has promised to strengthen border security and lead a crackdown on illegal immigration in the interior. and has already entered many borders. Hawks are leading this effort. The next president is also suggested He will target TPS.
“Once these individuals have a legal foothold in the United States, they are nearly impossible to track down and remove,” Zinke told DCNF. “This is a tactic that Islamic extremist terrorist organizations have used for years, and the Biden administration knows it.”
“They also know that on day one, President Donald J. Trump is going to remind the world what America First looks like, and that is scaring the globalist deep state. I know,” the Montana senator continued.
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