Over 100 House Democrats Demand Biden ‘Use All Tools Available’ to Give Illegal Migrants Work Permits

House Democrats sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding they “use all the tools available” to help migrants “seeking to work lawfully, support their families, and contribute to the economy.”

Led by ranking Judiciary Committee Democrats Jerry Nadler and Pramila Jayapal, more than 100 House Democrats signed their names to the Sunday letter urging the Biden administration to “ease the undue delays in granting work authorizations to asylum seekers.” Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ritchie Torres, Jamie Raskin, Rashida Tlaib, Eric Swalwell, and Adam Schiff were among the signatories.

“Unfortunately, positive legislative reforms in immigration are unlikely this congress due to extreme MAGA Republican opposition,” the letter, first obtained by Politico, concluded. “However, the administration can make significant and meaningful reforms through many of the authorities already given to it by congress. We strongly urge the administration to use these authorities to the fullest extent possible.”

The move, some researchers believe, would make America even more prone to illegal immigration.

The letter comes just weeks after the House Freedom Caucus vowed to shut down the government if the impending funding package fails to include the “House-passed ‘Secure the Border Act of 2023’ to cease the unchecked flow of illegal migrants, combat the evils of human trafficking, and stop the flood of dangerous fentanyl into our communities.”

The list of demands included that Congress must work to address “the unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI,” ending the “Left’s cancerous woke policies in the Pentagon,” and unwavering opposition to “any blank check for Ukraine in any supplemental appropriations bill.”

The vocal concerns of the Freedom Caucus led Representative Ken Buck (R., Colo.) to bemoan the “perfect storm” conditions confronting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) over the coming weeks.

“On the one hand, we’ve got to pass a continuing resolution,” the Colorado representative told MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki on Sunday. “We also have the impeachment issue. And we also have members of the House, led by my good friend, Chip Roy, who are concerned about policy issues. They want riders in the appropriations bills, amendments in the appropriations bills that guarantee some type of security on our Southern border.”

“So you take those things put together, and Kevin McCarthy, the speaker, has made promises on each of those issues to different groups. And now it is all coming due at the same time.”

The letter signed by 103 House Democrats echoes a similar note to the White House, signed by five Democratic senators in late May, demanding “a process [that] would help to streamline cancellation of removal cases and increase access to lawful permanent resident status for immigrants who are vital contributors to their American families and our communities.”

“Your respective agencies could address this issue by instituting a coordinated process that allows individuals to affirmatively request that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers review their cases to make preliminary determinations about their eligibility for this relief,” the letter continued.

“Creating such a process would unlock a path to lawful permanent resident status for deserving individuals and streamline the processing of cancellation of removal cases in immigration court—the second-most common type of case.”

Nearly 40 percent of migrants in the United States have overstayed their visa, Robert Law, the director of government relations with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, previously noted. “The border wall won’t address these aspects of illegal immigration. To truly combat illegal immigration you must eliminate the pull factors, with the ability to work unlawfully in the country without fear of repercussions being the most significant magnet,” Law has argued.