Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, asserts that the policy of “unlimited immigration” implemented by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has been executed intentionally rather than as a result of incompetence.
In a recent hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Krikorian emphasized that the influx of millions of migrants into American communities within a span of fewer than four years is a calculated decision, not a mere coincidence.
“The Biden-Harris record on immigration is the result of neither incompetence nor failure. The largest border crisis in the history of our country, probably the largest such event in human history, began on January 20, 2021, on purpose — not due to incompetence,” Krikorian said:
“Since that date, there have been more than 10 million encounters of inadmissible aliens at our borders, millions of whom have been and who continue to be unlawfully allowed to enter the United States. This did not happen because the Biden-Harris administration and its impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas made mistakes or miscalculations.”
Krikorian stated that the right-to-migrate philosophy espoused by President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has shaped the administration’s official border policies, despite being in conflict with federal immigration law.
“There are two ways of thinking about the immigration issue overall: Either no one in the world is allowed to come here and we make limited exceptions or everyone in the world is allowed to come here with certain limited exceptions,” Krikorian said:
The Immigration and Nationality Act, of course, is based on the former perspective. No foreigner has a right to move here, but we the people decide the specific grounds to admit a limited number of people. [Emphasis added]
“This administration’s approach to immigration is based on … the opposite view — that everyone in the world has a right to move here if they so wish and the American people have no right to place limits on immigration apart from those related to basic safety.”
Krikorian expressed that he favors the term “unlimited immigration” over “open borders” to more precisely characterize the Biden-Harris policy, irrespective of its effects on American citizens.
“I would describe the Biden-Harris approach to immigration as one of unlimited immigration that holds that any limits on the levels of immigration are morally indefensible and circumventing those limits by any means is a moral duty,” Krikorian said.
“This is fundamentally contrary to federal law, of course, but also contrary to the Constitution and the sovereignty and consent of the government,” he continued.
Krikorian’s testimony coincides with a report released this week by the House Homeland Security Committee, which outlined that over 85 percent of migrants arriving at the southern border are being integrated into American communities.
