Today, Fake News Exposed presents another article by Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto. Dr. Cotto is the creator, host and producer of News Sight, delivering sharp insights on the key events that shape our lives. He publishes Cotto’s Digest, sharing how business and the economy really impact us all. During the 2024 presidential race, he developed the Five-Point Forecast which accurately predicted Donald Trump’s national victory and correctly called every swing state. Cotto holds a doctorate in business administration and is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black Belt.
The Illegal-Alien Green Card Game is Over. Democrats Want to Revive It.
A landmark ruling, from the nation’s highest immigration appeals court, has just delivered a triumph for Americans who really put their country first.
On August 13, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued Matter of Delcarmen-Lara. This judgment thoroughly overturns a 2012 binding precedent that, as a holdover of the Barack H. Obama era, had let aliens game the system. They did this at a scale so great, it is almost beyond belief. The decision pertains to advance parole, a program for certain immigrants inside the United States who need permission to reenter after global travel.
It goes without saying that aliens who crossed the US border unlawfully lack a legal entry record. This renders almost all of them ineligible to apply for a green card from within America. However, a wide loophole existed via securing advance parole, most often through Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS). After taking a trip abroad, a paroled alien’s return generated an unambiguously lawful, inspected stamp on their passport.
With that record of legal entry, said immigrant was able to apply for a green card through an immediate relative, wholly from inside the US.
Now, any international excursion counts as a full departure under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). That single clarification triggers three-year or 10-year bars on reentry. The shorter term is for anyone who illegally accrued more than 180 days in America. The longer term applies to those with a year or more of unlawful presence.
For years, the Obama-era Arrabally rule created an exploitative safe harbor. Aliens who entered illegally or overstayed visas could secure advance parole, then travel and return without being barred. The BIA has decisively restored the ordinary meaning of the word “depart.” No special exception exists for temporary authorized travel. The change applies only going forward, protecting completed trips, yet it closes the door for every future traveler who plays the Obama-era game.
This is not technical tinkering. It removes a major obstacle that had frustrated removal of aliens already under final deportation orders:
Immigrants who entered illegally, then received a removal order, but later obtained temporary protection, and finally used advance parole to manufacture eligibility for permanent status are out of slick tricks. Once they leave America under Delcarmen-Lara, a multi-year bar locks in. The existing removal order can finally be executed, or a new one may be issued.
Immigration judges and law enforcement officers now possess a clearer, faster route to carry out the INA. The timing could not be better.
Donald J. Trump’s administration has already transformed border security and interior enforcement into the most effective operation in modern history:
The Trump Administration’s accomplishments on border control and immigration policy are impressive:
Southwest border encounters have collapsed more than 95 percent. Daily crossings hover near 250. For months on end, zero illegal entrants have been released into America. Interior removals and self-deportations together approach three million. Criminal aliens, gang members, and terrorism suspects are being prioritized and removed at record rates.
Temporary parole programs that funneled hundreds of thousands from failed states have been terminated.
Refugee ceilings have been slashed to historic lows. TPS for multiple countries has ended, subjecting more than a million previously shielded individuals to removal.
These results fulfill explicit campaign commitments made in 2024: close the border, end catch-and-release, launch the largest deportation effort ever, and restore operational control.
The BIA’s decision slots perfectly into that framework. By eliminating a judicially-invented escape hatch, it multiplies the impact of every other immigration law enforcement tool already deployed. It reinforces the message that illegal presence carries real consequences. It ends the inanity that a temporary travel document can erase years of unlawful presence.
Yet the legacy media, and even the conservative press, have treated this nationwide ruling as barely a footnote. That silence is indefensible. A binding change of this magnitude deserves sustained attention, especially in a midterm year when control of Congress hangs in the balance. Voters who care about national sovereignty should grasp what has been accomplished and what remains at risk.
The Democrats Will Open the Floodgates
The Democratic Party no longer resembles the coalition that once claimed to defend working families and other decent Americans who fall on hard times. It has been captured by far-left activists who, under the banner of “democratic socialism,” view American borders as moral failures and Western civilization itself as evil. Their rising, third-worldist hostility toward traditional Americana, non-woke white people, and pro-Israel Jews is overt.
They celebrate policies that flood America with migrants from underdeveloped countries, while labeling any immigration law enforcement effort as first-world oppression.
In the case that Democrats regain the US House, the Senate, or both, they will move immediately to defund and obstruct every successful immigration control measure now in place. They will go to bat for catch-and-release chaos, try to revive the parole pipelines, and weaponize every procedural delay against Trump’s immigration crackdown.
At the same time, they will harass and investigate any Republican preparing for the 2028 presidential contest. The next two years shall be warped into a continuous campaign of blue-on-red institutional sabotage.
That outcome is avoidable only if GOP voters who value secure borders, lawful immigration, and first-world civilization moreover show up in November. Staying home is not neutrality. It is surrender. It hands the levers of power to forces that treat American greatness as an obstacle rather than a goal. Progress has already been secured: record-low illegal crossings, mass removals, dismantled temporary statuses, and now Delcarmen-Lara.
All this deserves protection and expansion. The alternative is a return to the Biden-Harris open-border experiment that produced carnage on a level which knows no easy description.
The Board of Immigration Appeals operates inside the Department of Justice as the final administrative voice on immigration questions. Its nationwide authority exists to produce uniform application of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The entire immigration court system has been stacked with Trump administration personnel.
If not for this, Delcarmen-Lara would have been mere wishful thinking from starry-eyed immigration control advocates. The presidential team has replaced pro-illegal alien judges. It has accelerated once-glacial dockets so that removal orders actually mean something. It has appointed jurists who issue new binding precedents that expedite unlawful alien removal.
The Delcarmen-Lara decision, an appreciably ripe fruit from the 2024 presidential election’s tree, returns the law to its text. This ruling denies reptilian immigration advocates the ability to manufacture an enduring legal status for unlawful aliens, essentially through the simple act of cross-border travel.
Republican voters surely understand the stakes, without needing some purportedly “elite” translation of plain truth. A nation that cannot control who enters and who stays is not a sovereign country. A government that rewards illegal entry while punishing those who wait in line invites contempt for every other law.
Conclusion
President Trump’s record demonstrates that determined leadership can reverse years of nauseating failure in a remarkably short time.
The new Delcarmen-Lara precedent removes one more barrier that had slowed the work of ensuring America’s first-world nationhood. Citizens who want the progress to continue should treat this November’s midterms as the crucial test they are. Anything less invites the very wreckage that buries America into the bowels of perdition.
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