
Mayorkas Opens 'U Visa' Doorway to Economic Migrant Amnesty
Biden's border chief announced June 14 that he is offering work permits and welfare to illegal migrants who ask for a "U Visa."

Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s border chief, announced on June 14 that he is offering work permits, welfare, Social Security numbers (SSNs), and exemption from deportation to the illegal migrants who ask for a “U visa.”
The nation’s immigration laws were designed to prevent Americans from losing jobs and homes to millions of low-wage economic migrants. The U visa is a small, 10,000 person-a-year side door through the nation’s immigration laws. It was created in 2000, supposedly to protect illegal migrants who want to serve as witnesses in criminal trials.
Mayorkas and his deputies have “detonated a bomb, they’ve blown open the side door,” Rob Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, said.
Their plan is to give work permits and SSNs to illegal migrants who merely apply for the U visas by creating a cursory “Bona Fide Determination (BFD) process,” he said. The BFD process essentially removes the annual cap on the number of migrants who can get work permits and SSNs.