In Biden’s America, breaking the law has its perks.
When pressed by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) during a Thursday hearing, TSA Administrator David Pekoske stated that, since the start of this year, nearly 1,000 illegal aliens have been allowed to board U.S. flights using deportation orders and arrest warrants as ID.
“How many individuals have presented TSA with arrest warrants or deportation notices that were permitted to travel in this calendar year?” Hawley asked, per Breitbart News.
“Under 1,000 sir,” Pekoske responded.
According to Pekoske, airports’ federal security directors are not directly involved in all screenings involving illegal aliens boarding with arrest warrants and deportation orders.
“They have an interview with the [TSA] officers that are on scene at the checkpoint,” Pekoske explained. “They will bring in the federal security director if needed.… We aren’t looking if a person is legal or illegal in the country.”
Hawley had first inquired with Pekoske’s office back in January.
“This is unacceptable. No government security agency should permit individuals to use an arrest warrant or deportation notice to pass a security check,” Hawley said at the time, noting the fundamental point of an arrest warrant is “for police to actively seek out and apprehend criminals.”
Biden’s lax immigration policies have been a major departure from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to decline to freeze an order from a lower court that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from implementing less-restrictive immigration enforcement policies that would prioritize arrests primarily for illegal aliens deemed threats to public safety or national security, but allow others to remain in the country without fear of apprehension.
The decision was also notable in that it marked the first vote for Biden-appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who dissented along with justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Amy Coney Barrett. The justices will hear the case in late November.
SCOTUS BLOG notes of the case:
The policy at the center of the dispute is outlined in a September 2021 memorandum by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the federal government’s priorities for immigration enforcement. Explaining that there are over 11 million noncitizens currently in the United States who could be subject to deportation, but that the Department of Homeland Security does not have the resources to apprehend and deport all of them, the memorandum instructed immigration officials to prioritize the apprehension and deportation of three groups of noncitizens: suspected terrorists, people who have committed serious crimes, and those caught at the border.
Texas and Louisiana went to federal court in Texas to challenge the policy. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton vacated the policy on June 10, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit rejected the Biden administration’s request to put Tipton’s ruling on hold while it appeals.
With its latest move, the Supreme Court has dealt the Biden White House a second blow in this fight.
The irony of the situation is that, when Democrats get their way, illegal aliens seemingly have greater rights and privileges in this country than citizens.
American citizens, after all, have to present real identification to board an airplane. Illegal aliens, meanwhile, who have already broken federal immigration law by crossing the border without authorization, are allowed onto a plane with arrest warrants and deportation orders!
But Biden’s actions aren’t surprising. Actions that so flagrantly mock law and order, and which clearly place the lives of American citizens at risk, aren’t accidental. It’s a deliberate plan to hollow the nation out from within.
Recent elections, particularly in Texas, where Republicans have successfully flipped longtime Democrat seats by running conservative Hispanic candidates, shows that the Left’s appeal is fading even among the non-white base Democrats once believed they had secured.
Because Democrats realize that even minority demographics begin voting conservative once they are acclimated to the country, they see it as crucial to continue flooding America with a never-ending wave of future Democrat voters — illegal aliens.
The administration’s immigration policy — which has created a deadly humanitarian crisis at the border — is precisely what happens when you have politicians who care more about votes and power than they do about the well-being of those they were elected to represent.
