The Biden Administration is reportedly running what critics are calling a “mass amnesty” program for illegal aliens. And guess what? They’ve already terminated over 350,000 asylum cases since 2022. You read that right: 350,000 cases, gone in a puff of bureaucratic smoke.
According to a report from the New York Post, these cases were quietly dismissed by the U.S. government if the applicants didn’t have a criminal record or weren’t considered a threat to national security. No asylum granted, no asylum denied—just erased from the system, allowing these individuals to move freely within the United States without the looming fear of deportation.
“This is just a massive amnesty under the guise of prosecutorial discretion,” says Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge now with the Center for Immigration Studies. “You’re basically allowing people who don’t have a right to be in the United States to be here indefinitely.”
Let’s pull back the curtain a bit further. Since Biden took office in 2021, a staggering 77 percent of asylum seekers have been allowed to stay in the country. Meanwhile, the current backlog of asylum cases has ballooned to an eye-popping 3.5 million. Faced with these jaw-dropping numbers, the administration made the controversial decision to terminate thousands of cases—effectively removing them from “removal proceedings” and sidestepping the threat of deportation altogether.
This isn’t the first time Biden’s immigration policies have raised eyebrows. One of his initial moves as president was to rescind the “Remain In Mexico” policy, which required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their court dates. Instead, the new approach massively expanded the “catch and release” program—where illegal aliens are given a court date and then released into the interior of the United States. Spoiler alert: Many never show up for those court dates.
International asylum law requires applicants to apply in the first safe country they enter, but that’s not how things are playing out on the southern border. Asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East, and other far-flung corners of the globe are showing up, having traveled through multiple countries to reach the U.S. The numbers are staggering: over 10 million illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office, many claiming asylum.
With this mass amnesty, the Biden Administration might be trying to ease a crushing backlog, but at what cost? This is a blatant sidestep of immigration laws, allowing millions to remain in the U.S. without proper vetting. Is this really the best way forward, or just another recipe for chaos?