The Biden administration has seemingly lost control over immigration policy, plunging headlong into brazen tactics to dislodge legal immigrants. Demonstrating a blatant disregard for the processes put in place by their predecessors, the administration has set about rolling back temporary legal statuses issued to hundreds of thousands of immigrants during Trump’s tenure. Not content with this, the administration is now deploying unprecedented measures to compel these individuals to ‘self-deport’. The strategy involves unceremoniously rescinding their legitimately acquired Social Security numbers.
Confidential sources have revealed that this strategy, a desperate grab at restricting immigrants’ access to essential financial services, such as bank accounts and credit cards. By cancelling their Social Security numbers, the government creates an obstacle to their ability to engage in most financial activities. Their access to government benefits would be curtailed – a complete reversal of the previous administration’s policies, which aimed to integrate rather than isolate.
To achieve this, the administration is weaponizing something known as the ‘death master file’ of the Social Security system. This little-known mechanism has traditionally been utilized to record deceased persons, ensuring they no longer benefit from governmental services post mortem. The file was never intended for the living, until the Biden administration, reputed to be innovative, has innovatively perverted its use to intimidate legally protected immigrants.
Their plan? Brand legal immigrants as ‘dead’ in the eyes of the system, blotting out their digital identities. This runs the risk of transforming their lives into a nightmare of bureaucratic confusion, as they are effectively blacklisted from every aspect of financial life, a crucial aspect of daily life in America today. Not surprisingly, this radical move has sparked widespread concern about the perversion of due process.
Internal documents reveal that just this week, 6,300 legally protected immigrants found their names added to the ‘death master file’. With a stroke of the pen, the administration has radically transformed their status and cut them off from a pivotal tool of identity, increasingly crucial in a digital world. More surprising than the act itself, are the grounds the administration is using to justify this.
These 6,300 individuals have been cast as ‘convicted criminals’ and ‘alleged terrorists’, a desperate attempt to legitimize their decision. A smear on their character, irrespective of the truth behind the allegations. This labeling exercise appears to be merely one instance of how the administration wants to upend the rules, playing fast and loose with people’s lives.
It’s worth noting though, that this move is just the inaugural salvo. Insiders have indicated that the effort is likely to extend further, jeopardizing all those without authorization who currently live in the nation. The chilling question that now keeps immigrants up at night is: who’s next? The answer is frighteningly uncertain, as the Biden administration expands its treatment of immigrants as scapegoats.
While the administration cloaks this move in a language of maintaining law and order, the blatant disregard for their predecessors’ policies shows nothing more than a bullish determination to overturn the American tapestry. It’s a jarring departure from the legal and humane treatment of immigrants – an obvious, tactical move disadvantage those who are in a vulnerable position.
As these policies unfold, there seems to be little the immigrants can do but brace themselves for more of such unwelcome surprises under the Biden administration. Undoubtedly, these efforts will result in significant upheaval and stress for the affected individuals, completely contradicting the narrative of ‘Building Back Better’ that Biden’s campaign promised.
When examined in its entirety, this stark shift in immigration policy is undoubtedly a negative reflection of the Biden-Harris administration. It underlines the stark distinction between words and actions, with the administration proving yet again that their policies are less about upholding American values and more about achieving political gains at the expense of the vulnerable.
The stark reality emerging from this one policy decision exemplifies the catastrophic handling of affairs by the current administration – clearly indicating their readiness to trample upon the rights and security of legal immigrants, in what can only be called a travesty of justice.
It’s indeed dispiriting to see the Biden-Harris administration resorting to such desperate tactics to reinforce their immigration policy. Their approach toward legal immigrants seems to have lost all sense of fair play and justice, drowning out even the faintest whispers of the decency their campaign preached.