EXCLUSIVEBiden eviscerated over 'mass amnesty' plan by Republicans who say he's 'incentivizing' illegal migrants to come to the U.S.

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Republicans are ripping Biden's plan to give half a million illegal immigrants citizenship as a 'feckless' election-year move that actually incentivizes illegal crossings. 

On Tuesday afternoon, Biden rolled out a new policy that would allow roughly 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to citizenship if they've lived in the country for at least 10 years.

Biden suggested the election-year move was happening this summer to prevent some of the deportations that Trump has pledged should he be victorious in the fall.

But top GOP lawmakers are exclusively told DailyMail.com that the plan will act as a magnet to draw more people to cross into the U.S. illegally. 

'Every time Biden does something like this, he invites more and more people to come here illegally,' Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., exclusively told DailyMail.com.

President Joe Biden speaks during an event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program, in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, where he announced the migrant mass amnesty for half a million spouses

'So this is all part of the catch and release incentives that the Biden administration is giving these illegal immigrants.'

'And today he did another half a million illegal immigrants have provided amnesty for them. Democrats on the Senate floor again and again, vote to allow this to continue on.'

'You're letting into the country criminals, drug dealers, murderers and terrorists that we now know of, and they let 10 million illegal immigrants into the country.'

Another top Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, also ripped the announcement for acting as a lure to potential migrants.

'This is a huge magnet and draw factor,' he exclusively told DailyMail.com, adding it 'incentivizes more and more people to come.'

He said Democrats 'are just helplessly confused about what what border border security means, and really undermining their own stated objective to try to bring it under some control.'

'So I think it's a big mistake,' Cornyn continued.

Republicans decried the policy as a magnet for illegal migrants to flock to the U.S.

An estimated 10 million migrants have entered the U.S. illegally under Biden

Last week, Biden announced an executive order that would limit some migrants from claiming asylum. Republicans say his actions Tuesday directly conflict with his order from last week

Both Republicans mentioned Biden's recent executive order aimed at stemming the flow of illegal crossings by disallowing asylum cases for migrants who cross illegally.

They said the order came 'too little too late' and that the mass asylum program for spouses contradicts last week's action by Biden. 

'It's amazing to me that President Biden says after 94 executive orders, dismantling all of the border security measures that President Trump put in place, he issued his 95th, during which he said he was finally getting tough on border security,' Cornyn noted.

'Then a few days later, he turns around and says 500,000 people who came into the country illegally can stay and get on a pathway to citizenship.' 

Democrats, meanwhile, celebrated the president's plan as a victory. 

'Today [Biden] announces the most significant relief for immigrants since DACA—protections for undocumented spouses of citizens. To make them eligible for work permits. To help keep families together. To affirm American values—a land of opportunity for people who want to contribute,' Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., posted on X.

Rep. Sarah Jacobs, D-Calif., similarly posted on X Tuesday afternoon: 'This is the BIGGEST immigration victory since DACA, allowing undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to breathe easier and stay legally in the U.S.'

'This is a big win for humane immigration reform and keeping families together.'

In the White House on Tuesday, Biden celebrated the policy and ripped former President Donald Trump. 

Biden took shots at former President Donald Trump when announcing the amnesty policy

President Joe Biden said he wasn't 'playing politics' with the border before ripping Trump

'When he was president he separated families and children at the border,' Biden recalled. 'And now he's proposing to rip spouses and children from their families and homes and communities and put them in detention camps.'

The miffed Democrat continued: 'He's actually saying these things. It's hard to believe it's being said. He's actually saying these things out loud.'

Tuesday's announcement came after earlier this month Biden made a move to shut down U.S.-Mexico border crossings - by barring most migrants from being able to claim asylum if they came into the U.S. that way.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied that Tuesday's move to help spouses - which coincided with the 15-year anniversary of the DACA program - was to provide a counter-balance to the controversial asylum plan.