The Biden administration’s decision to restart a controversial immigration program is being made only with “political optics” in mind, according to one expert.
“That is all they care about is optics, get more people in, getting them through the ports, not between the ports, so they can say, ‘Look, our numbers at the southwest border are down. We’re doing great,’” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.
The comment comes as the Biden administration reportedly looks to revive a program that has allowed tens of thousands of migrants from four nations to fly directly into the U.S. despite the program being paused last month for what NBC News reported as “mass fraud.”
The program allowed migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to apply for entry and temporary work authorization with the support of a sponsor who pledged to financially back the migrants once they arrived in the United States.