Following Quinton Lucas’ announcement that illegal aliens would be allowed to work in Kansas City under Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ illegal immigrant parole program, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is taking aim at the mayor of Kansas City.
“An illegal alien from Venezula, who had repeatedly flouted U.S. immigration laws, was actually granted a work permit under a misguided and illegal policy enacted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” Bailey stated. “In February, he brutally murdered a young college student named Laken Hope Riley.”
Bailey revealed that Lucas publicly welcomed everyone looking for safety in Kansas City while refusing to admit this.
“Yet, against the backdrop of literally millions of illegal aliens flooding our borders, overwhelming the social safety net of large American cities, and in some cases even committing violent crimes against our citizens, you are actively encouraging them to come to the Show Me State,” Bailey stated.
Bailey cited Lucas’s social media post in which he declared:
“All are welcome in Kansas City. Proud to work with my fellow mayors from Denver and NYC as we work to ensure decompression of new arriving communities.”
Bailey continued, saying that although Lucas eventually withdrew his comments and limited the offer to “persons who are lawfully present, with lawful work permits,” the fundamental problem remained unaddressed.
“Secretary Mayorkas’ open border programs are themselves illegal. Your statements are wildly irresponsible,” Bailey stated. “Not only do you ignore the fact that Laken Riley’s killer has a so-called “work permit,” but you are actively encouraging Missouri businesses to become entangled in a fundamentally unlawful program, and exposing them to legal liability in the process.”
Bailey went on to say that Missouri will now file a lawsuit against Secretary Mayorkas along with 19 other state attorneys general over his “disastrous” and illegal parole program, which forcibly gives hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants a road to citizenship.
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Bailey said in his letter that Mayorkas’ program for illegal immigrants to be paroled would permit up to 360,000 people from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua to be “paroled” into the country each year.
Bailey’s correspondence with Lucas transpires on the eve of Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., vehement testimony before the Senate, which ended Mayorkas’ impeachment proceedings.
The desperate secretary was questioned by lawmakers about Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who is suspected of killing Riley on February 22 when she was jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Sen. Hawley said in his statement that Ibarra had received a work permit even though local police had later dropped the charges against him after he was charged with a crime against a minor in New York.
“Nothing is done to this guy. He had a criminal record to start with, he’s in the country on illegal grounds. You have falsely and illegally allowed him in. He committed a crime against a child. He’s not prosecuted, it’s expunged. In November, get this, in November, Ibarra files an application for employment authorization. And unbelievably, on December 9, 2023, it’s approved,” Hawley stated.
When the Biden administration first unveiled the Venezuelan parole program in October, a small number of people may enter the country by plane provided they weren’t in violation of the law and had a sponsor beforehand.
But President Biden declared in January that the program will be extended to allow up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua to enter the United States each month. Additionally, the program enables immigrants to get work permits and a two-year residence visa.
