Trump Keeps His Promise to American Workers, Sends Back Half a Million Immigrants
By revoking Biden’s parole program for immigrants from four poor countries, Trump is keeping his promise to working class Americans.
President Donald Trump is keeping his promise to American workers who were crushed under former President Joe Biden’s economy by revoking a selective parole program for immigrants from four impoverished countries. The move will provide relief to hundreds of thousands of hardworking Americans whom these immigrants were meant to replace.
On March 25, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the immediate termination of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program. The Biden administration crafted the program to offer people from those countries who wanted to come to the U.S. an expanded legal pathway to keep them from crossing illegally through the southern border. By the end of Biden’s administration, 532,000 immigrants had used the CHNV program to enter the country.
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The Biden Administration Created a Border Invasion
As images of migrants flooding the southern border filled Americans TV screens leading up to the 2022 midterms, the DHS’s parole authority provided Biden the option to continue allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country without the political blowback.
Rather than simply secure the border, Mayorkas ran a pilot program with Venezuelans to dissuade them from trying to claim asylum at the southern border. The government paroled up to 24,000 Venezuelans per month into the country, beginning in October 2022. Biden then extended the program to include Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Cubans, on Jan. 9, 2023. This allowed him to fly in 30,000 workers per month from these countries into America’s heartland, under the public radar.
The monthly allotment of Haitian immigrants came in addition to those for whom DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had already extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Before Biden left office, Mayorkas would extend TPS for over 309,000 Haitian immigrants. This and the CHNV program facilitated the colonization of over 20,000 Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, a town that only had 58,000 residents when Biden took office.
The CHNV program provided a sweet deal for everyone except low-skilled American workers.
Employers continued to replace Americans with cheap foreign labor, immigrants from these countries got to reunite with friends and family in the U.S. and enjoy American jobs, and Biden got to provide hundreds of thousands of possible future citizens who would doubtless remain grateful to the party that allowed them to legally access the American Dream.
Low-skilled American workers, meanwhile, struggled to find full-time jobs, as these low-skilled foreigners flooded the job market.
From May 2019 to May 2024 immigrants accounted for three-fourths of job growth. The number of employed immigrants increased by 3.2 million, while the number of native-born Americans only increased by 971,000. This allowed the Biden administration to crow about unprecedented job growth while replacing birthright Americans with its ideal future Democrat majority.
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Biden used increased border crossings by citizens of these four countries as an excuse to create the CHNV program—as if he could do nothing to stop the crossings. Trump has since secured the border, and illegal crossing have fallen to a trickle. As Noem notes, in her revocation message, this removes the pretense and justification for the CHNV program.
Until America builds back its manufacturing base and can provide good paying jobs for citizens without college degrees, millions of Americans will continue to rely on service industry jobs. Overloading the workforce supply with 30,000 foreign workers per month not only denied Americans the opportunity to work those jobs, but ensured companies could keep salaries in that sector below a living wage by American standards. By removing over half a million of these workers from the labor market, Trump is forcing employers to hire Americans if they want to stay in business.
In a free market with borders, if an employer cannot pay citizens what they’re willing to work for, that employer deserves to have to look for a job himself. The Biden administration, along with previous liberal administrations, distorted the free market by giving companies a steady stream of essentially the modern version of indentured servitude. American companies don’t like it when foreign governments dump products on the American market, harming domestic business. American workers also don’t like it when their own government dumps foreign workers on the American job market.
Rather than remain obsessed with ending illegal immigration, Trump is approaching the legal immigration Biden created form a pro-American worker standpoint. Biden technically “fixed” illegal immigration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela by offering would-be illegal aliens from those countries a path to legal immigration. But half a million legal, unskilled workers still undercut Americans looking for restaurant and hospitality jobs. Stopping the flow of illegal aliens is great; sending back half a million legal immigrants is even greater and will create an overnight demand for native-born American labor.
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