As usual, TN’s Don Barnett nails the issue – the migration pull factor of work permits – emphasized below in his analysis of the work permit for asylum seekers. BTW, the Biden administration has also ditched following the law that determines legitimate claims for asylum –https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/biden-admin-offers-mass-amnesty-to-migrants-as-it-quietly-terminates-350000-asylum-cases-sources/
Thanks to TN state legislator Sen. Kerry Roberts, TN has repealed the open door access to state issued commercial and professional licenses based on work permits but for my two cents, the TN legislature has a far way to go to stop equating the possession of a work permit with any lawful right or eligibility to be in the U.S. The fact remains that the Biden administration is ignoring federal immigration law to allow otherwise inadmissible aliens to enter the U.S. and then reward them with work permits. Republican legislators in TN can’t have it both ways – tell us that they oppose illegal immigration but then abet the Biden administration’s agenda of blatantly ignoring and overriding federal immigration laws.
This includes the repeated efforts of TN legislators to reward Obama’s DACA recipients with state public benefits like in-state tuition and professional and occupational licenses. In 2021, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower federal court’s ruling that the DACA program is substantively and procedurally invalid and in violation of federal immigration law.