Key Takeaways

HR 3648 would upend the nation’s legal immigration system while benefiting China and inviting an immediate, immeasurable influx of new applicants.

The bill would provide green cards to those who have been waiting for their bite at the apple simply by being in line, not by earning it.

Lawmakers should vote no on the EAGLE Act and instead fix our porous borders and end the crisis that the Biden administration has designed.

The House is about to debate a wrongheaded bill that is touted simply as a mechanism to speed up the availability of green cards for certain employment-based applicants.

But the bill, HR 3648, actually would upend the nation’s legal immigration system while benefiting China and inviting an immediate, immeasurable influx of new applicants to overwhelm the process.

Of course, Congress has yet to secure our southern border during the worst crisis of illegal immigration in our history. Beyond ignoring the spiraling border crisis, this legislation is ill-advised because it would create significant national security risks.

Titled the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022, or the EAGLE Act, the bill would provide an accelerated path for more Chinese Communist Party members to gain permanent residence in the U.S.

HR 3648 also would favor Chinese and Indian nationals for several years, to the exclusion of other foreign nationals, in employment-based immigration.

To ensure an orderly and manageable legal immigration system,...

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