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Parolee Immigrants Want White-Collar Jobs

By Joe Guzzardi

President Joe Biden, the magic man who can convert illegal immigration into legal immigration with the stroke of his pen, took bows at his State of the Union address. Biden tried to convey the impression that granting immigration parole to illegal aliens from Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba converted their status to legal. Biden boasted: “Since we launched our new border plan last month, unlawful migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97 percent.”

Patting himself on the back during his SOTU speech, Biden neglected to mention that his latest sovereignty-destroying immigration scheme is unlawful and unconstitutional. Since his inauguration, Biden has consistently broken immigration laws and mocked Americans who want enforcement, not $20 billion-dollar giveaways to 5.5 million unlawfully present foreign nationals.

Backing up to Biden’s disingenuous assertion that illegal immigration “from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97 percent…,” it’s true on its face. But the back story that explains the how and the why that precipitated the drop is more telling and reveals — again! — the extent to which Biden blatantly breaks immigration laws.

In early January, the Biden White House and the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release that promised “border enforcement measures to improve border security” and — for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans — “create additional safe and orderly processes.” The migrants, the press release claimed, are “fleeing humanitarian crises.” Going forward, 30,000 migrants a month, 360,000 annually, will be parole-eligible, but conveniently for Biden, because they will be entering legally, their totals won’t be included among the numbers for illegal immigrant border surgers.

In 1996, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gave statutory power to temporarily “parole” aliens into the United States “in emergency cases, such as the case of an alien who requires immediate medical attention” or “a witness or for purposes of prosecution.” But to curb parole abuses, the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act clearly stated that only on a case-by-case basis, and assuming compelling humanitarian reasons or urgent public need, can parole be granted.

Obviously, 30,000 per month is neither case-by-case nor a pressing public necessity. The rewarded aliens, with unknown intentions, will be arriving from far-left, authoritarian countries, including impoverished Haiti. For citizens concerned about safety and security from extremists, DHS assured the public that all migrants are thoroughly vetted, a physical impossibility since too little confirmable data is immediately available to U.S. officials.

While aliens from the parole-designated countries aren’t lined up at the border, the 97 percent decline Biden touted, the migrants are nonetheless U.S. bound, and likely lifetime residents. Here’s an example of how parole will work out: as the Los Angeles Times reported, a 25-year-old Cuban engineer applied online for parole. Within a week, he landed in Florida, hoping to eventually earn a master’s degree from MIT, and then get a white-collar IT job. The young Cuban’s dreams conflict with many U.S. high school grads who also aspire to quality education and high-paying jobs, a reality that Biden doesn’t care about. If the Cuban migrant’s dreams go awry, he can collect welfare and await U.S. citizenship, the greatest gift. Look for the Cuban’s tale to endlessly repeat itself as other parolees arrive.

Enforcement advocates wonder what lawbreaking immigration venture Biden will embrace next, and whether Congress will intervene to save the nation from the president’s lawlessness. They won’t have to ponder long. The Canadian border is the latest sieve for illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol’s Swanton, Vermont, sector, responsible for protecting New Hampshire, Vermont and the northern tip of New York, is generally the most active region in the north.

Agents say that they’ve detected “historic” levels of illegal crossings, with a nearly 900 percent increase in encounters. Included are Canadians, Indians, Chinese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Brazilians and Columbians. The word is out: Biden and his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas are patsies. The Biden-Mayorkas tandem’s message to the world is come, settle and thereby deny Americans of their own dreams for a better life.

Joe Guzzardi writes about immigration issues and impacts.

Parolee Immigrants Want White-Collar Jobs

Woodrow Wilson Was Greatest Baseball Fan

By Joe Guzzardi

U.S. presidents’ love affair with baseball dates back to George Washington who wrote in his journal that during Valley Forge he “sometimes throws and catches a ball for hours with his aide-de-camp.” Every president since Washington, except Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, had a passion for base ball, as Washington then referred to the game. Roosevelt thought baseball was a “mollycoddle game,” and Coolidge attended to appease his passionate-fan wife, Grace.

Abraham Lincoln, upon hearing in 1860 that he won the presidential nomination, allegedly responded, “They’ll have to wait a few minutes [for his formal acceptance] until I have another turn at bat.” In 1893, Herbert Hoover was Stanford University’s shortstop, and at age 88 called himself one of the sport’s “oldest fans.” In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first president to toss out the now-traditional first pitch.

Dwight Eisenhower played semi-pro baseball under the pseudonym “Wilson” which, luckily for Ike, preserved his West Point scholarship. Richard Nixon was an avid fan, a players’ favorite and knowledgeable enough about baseball to be seriously considered as a potential MLB commissioner. George H. W. Bush, a 1948 Yale University graduate, was a standout Eli first baseman who played in the first College World Series and kept his well-oiled MacGregor mitt handy in his Oval Office’s desk drawer.

But after historians researched the baseball archives, and read countless news accounts, the nearly unanimous consensus is that Woodrow Wilson, the former Princeton University president, New Jersey governor, and from 1913-1921, a two-term 28^th president, was baseball’s biggest fan.

From an early age, baseball and its intricacies absorbed Wilson. As a child, Wilson sketched in his geometry notebook a hand-scribbled diagram of a baseball diamond, and labeled it “Base Ball Ground.” Wilson later played varsity center field for Davidson College and was Princeton’s assistant manager. Scouts said that Wilson was “a fine player,” but his teammates countered that the scholarly outfielder was often too caught up in his studies to show up for practice.

Author Curt Smith in “The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball & the White House” wrote that Wilson absorbed baseball more deeply than any White House occupant who preceded or succeeded him, an opinion that Washington Senators’ owner Clark Griffith, premier Senators’ first baseman Joe Judge and the peerless Ty Cobb all agreed with. Griffith had been watching Senators’ Opening Days for nearly 30 years, more than enough time to make a sound evaluation. Judge concurred that “Wilson was by far the best fan. He knew a lot of us players and came out to the park often. He’d run his car right on the field and we’d put a player who wasn’t in the game at each corner of the car to watch for fly balls.” Through a special arrangement between Wilson and Griffith, Wilson’s chauffeur would enter the stadium through an outfield gate where the then-ailing president could watch the game undisturbed. But Cobb paid Wilson the highest compliment when he called the president “the greatest American.”

In Wilson’s final years, the travails of World War I and a stroke had taken their toll on the former president, but he still found solace in baseball. Wilson invited his secretary Randolph Bolling to his Washington home’s basement, referred to as “the dugout,” where they reviewed the previous day’s box scores, and second guessed the losing managers. At his life’s end, infirm from his stroke, plagued with constant migraines and painful dyspepsia, baseball provided Wilson with a few, rare calming moments. Wilson died in 1924, age 67, one year before his beloved Senators won the World Series.

Joe Guzzardi is a Society for American Baseball Research and Internet Baseball Writers Association member. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.

Woodrow Wilson Was Greatest Baseball Fan