Trump stops Biden's 'Labor-Smuggling' program
President Donald Trump has put a stop to what some are referring to as former President Joe Biden's "labor-smuggling" program.
Breitbart News reports that Trump shut the program down last week, which was the first week of his second administration.
Trump, of course, is an "America First" politician, and this would be a big move in that direction. It also is a move in the direction of fixing the southern border crisis.
First, we will look at the program that Trump shut down, and then we will look at why this is a big deal.
The details
CBS News was the first to report on Trump's move.
Per the outlet:
The Trump administration is shutting down processing offices in Latin America that the Biden administration set up to give migrants legal immigration options and dissuade them from crossing the southern border illegally, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News.
CBS went on to explain, "The offices, established in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala, had allowed certain migrants living in or passing through those countries to apply for programs that would allow them to enter the U.S. legally."
Trump, however, has stopped this. The outlet viewed internal documents from Trump's State Department, which show that he is "ceasing operations at those locations."
That should be the end of that.
Here's why this matters:
Breitbart News helps to flesh out why this move is a big deal.
The outlet writes:
The Safe Mobility Initiative sought to create many Safe Mobility Offices in foreign countries where low-wage foreigners could apply for visas to live and work in the United States and Europe.
In other words, the program "moved wage-cutting labor from Central and South America into American and European workplaces."
Breitbart goes on to report:
More than 30,000 migrants have been moved through the pipeline since 2024, via a variety of legal and quasi-legal routes, such as H-2A and H-2B work visas, parole loopholes, and asylum claims. The plan was the brainchild of President Joe Biden’s zealously pro-migration border czar, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Biden’s pro-migration Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. In turn, their deputies rolled the plan into a larger migration treaty — dubbed the LA Declaration — with multiple South American, Central American, and European countries, including Spain.
It is one of many Biden administration "brainchild" that Trump and his administration are currently locating and eliminating. We should see the results in the coming months and years.