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Today, Rep. Jim Banks (IN-03) introduced the End Executive Branch Amnesty Act, extensive immigration legislation to secure our border by stopping the Biden-Harris administration’s abuse of Temporary Protected Status and the CHNV Parole Program, limiting the use of immigration parole, banning the use of the CBP One application as a form of identification, and reforming treatment of unaccompanied minors. Read the bill text HERE and a one pager HERE.

Said Rep. Banks: “Small towns across our nation like Logansport, Indiana, are bearing the brunt of the Biden-Harris White House’s reckless open border policies. It’s time for Congress to secure our border once and for all.”

“The Biden-Harris administration has abused the laws on the books to grant millions of non-citizens legal status. Republicans must restore our immigration system to Congress’s original intent and ensure parole is only used as a last-ditch humanitarian measure to help foreign nationals in times of catastrophe. Over the past three years, millions of foreigners have made the dangerous and illegal journey across our southern border because of the Biden-Harris administration’s promise of future amnesty. Democrats broke our immigration system, and my bill would help fix it by ending mass parole and other magnets drawing people here illegally.”

Background:

Logansport, Indiana, a small town of just 18,000 residents, has recently been overwhelmed by an influx of an estimated 5,000 Haitian migrants in just two years. Logansport resident Candice Espinoza told Fox News that, “We don't have space for everybody, so the housing has been taken over and our schools have been taken over; pretty much the whole town has been taken over.”

The Biden-Harris administration has granted parole to over 2.1 million foreigners since October 2021.

Currently over 850,000 foreign migrants from sixteen different nations are protected from deportation and authorized to work in the U.S. through Temporary Protected Status.

The Biden-Harris administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela Parole Program (CHNV), which was never authorized by Congress, has flown over 520,000 foreign nationals into America since January 2024. An internal report by USCIS found rampant fraud in the CHNV Parole Program. As a result, the CHNV Parole Program was paused in July 2024, before the Biden-Harris administration restarted it several weeks later.

In 2023, the Biden-Harris administration began allowing illegal aliens to use the CBP One mobile app to submit identification and schedule appointments at ports of entries to be processed and then released into the U.S. A DHS OIG report from September 2024 found widespread fraud on the application.

The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of 325,000 unaccompanied migrant children.