CNN guest describes Biden amnesty for spouses as 'Hail Mary' to stop Hispanic vote loss

A Republican strategist said Wednesday that President Joe Biden was launching a “Hail Mary” with a proposal that would allow illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens to stay in the country.

Biden announced an executive order on Tuesday that would allow certain illegal immigrants who are married to US citizens to receive work permits, remain in the United States and receive a pathway to legal status. Bryan Lanza, a former campaign aide to former President Donald Trump, expressed doubt that Biden's effort would help him stem the loss of Hispanic voters.

“It's underwater with immigration, and it's losing a lot of ground with Latinos, so it's a Hail Mary to try to bring them back,” Lanza told “CNN This Morning” guest host Mau Raju. “Because the last three years his economic activities, his economic messages, his economic deliverables have been a failure for Latino communities, specifically working-class Latinos and middle-class Latinos, so he needs something, he needs : he needs a Hail Mary and that's all.”

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“I don't think it's enough, because I think Latinos have judged Joe Biden in terms of how he helps them financially, and he hasn't,” Lanza continued. “It has failed them for almost 36 months to deal with inflation. So it doesn't help them there.”

CNN data reporter Harry Enten described how Biden's slide in support of Hispanic voters could secure Arizona and Nevada for Trump in a June 10. segment with CNN News Central host John Berman.

“We'll see if it works, I don't think it will,” Lanza told Raju. “I don't think offering amnesty to anybody at this particular time is going to work, especially when the public sees Joe Biden as someone who started this immigration fire by reversing 94 executive orders that President Trump put in place. So you know, you can't make the man who started the fire find a solution to put the fire out. They don't have the confidence and they won't have the common sense to fix it.”

The Border Patrol had 1.6 million encounters with illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2021, 2.2 million in fiscal year 2022, and 2 million in fiscal year 2023, with 1.1 million encounters in the year fiscal 2024 to present, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported.

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