Remember how Biden would be the ‘most transparent administration in history and he immediately screwed that up? Well, the White House just doubled down on that issue by blocking Americans from knowing how many illegals are currently overdue for deportation. The annual DHS report is just standard business and shows how many foreigners have overstayed on their visas.
“The failure to post the report is consistent with the administration’s dramatic changes to avoid stigmatizing the illegal immigrant population, such as banning the term alien from federal government literature, according to former immigration officials.
“For whatever reason, it appears political appointees are not disclosing a report produced by career subject matter experts,” said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior adviser Jon Feere. “It’s consistent with the Biden administration’s general hostility to transparency.”
“The Biden policies are a slap in the face to all State Department employees—the message is that all foreigners can ignore visa adjudicators and stay as long as they’d like,” Feere said.
Under the Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000, the federal government is legally required to prepare an annual report on the number of foreign nationals who are suspected of overstaying their visas. That report must also be submitted to the House and Senate as part of a bipartisan effort to better track abuses in the country’s immigration system.
Subsequent appropriations bills for the Department of Homeland Security require the agency to post these reports publicly.”
“The public release of this report isn’t optional. It’s the law as mandated by Congress. Wasn’t this supposed to be “the most transparent administration ever…”
The deal is, Biden is already in hot water for the self-induced crisis at the border and his handlers don’t want to compound his already failing approval rating by telling Americans the truth. Recent reports did show that he plans to reinstate Trump’s remain in Mexico plan, but I’ll believe that when I see it.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
