We’ve torched this amnesty deal to the point where it
should be a burned-out cinder in an ashtray. Senate Republicans and
now-ex-Democrats are trying to push through a bill granting amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema
(I-AZ), who just left the Democratic Party, are the brain trust of this
legislation that is sure to infuriate the rest of the conservative base
when they read the fine print. On the other side, keep looking for how
major labor unions, who are no fans of rampant illegal immigration,
react to this bill. There will be no hearings—that would expose the
grand amnesty plan.
Two million recipients of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals will get put on the pathway to citizenship. Still, they can
sponsor extended family members once they’re through the process. It
doesn’t resolve the immigration issue, secure the border, or take it off
the table for either party. All it does is reset the clock for another
mass amnesty action for the next generation because these bills will
undoubtedly incentivize more people to come here illegally if they know
Washington will citizenship-track them eventually. Other details are
distractions like hiring more border patrol officers, expedited
deportation, and salary hikes. Notice how there’s no border wall funding
(via Fox News):
And @SenThomTillis wants to put up a big “come on in” sign by giving amnesty to millions https://t.co/yntonI8M9c
— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) December 10, 2022
And @SenThomTillis wants to put up a big “come on in” sign by giving amnesty to millions https://t.co/yntonI8M9c
— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) December 10, 2022
This is the closest to bragging about his amnesty surrender you will find on @SenThomTillis. Let's honor our Border Patrolmen by inviting in millions more illegal aliens, or something. https://t.co/NaBbuIRwUr
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 9, 2022
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A summary document, obtained by Fox, goes
into greater detail about what the plan would include -- specifically
that it would set a minimum staffing level at 20,500 Border Patrol
agents and would raise pay for agents -- who have been at the frontlines
of the border crisis since it started in early 2021-- by 14 percent.
It
would also hire an additional 600 officers annually for Customs and
Border Protection (CBP)’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) who staff the
ports of entry, who would be relied on more under the proposal. The
bill also would "make investments" in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) officers and immigration judges and courts -- which
have been facing significant backlogs.
On the
pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and DACA-eligible illegal
immigrants, it would cap eligibility for those who have been in the U.S.
since 2018, were under 18 when they arrived and were no older than 38
in 2012.
But the framework also includes a provision
on legal immigration to "recapture" green cards from past fiscal years.
This would take the difference between the number of green cards
authorized by Congress and the number actually given out for each year
and make that number of green cards automatically available.
It
is a provision that has called for by not only immigrant activist
groups but also by Big Tech-backed groups like FWD.us, as the employment
visas would overwhelmingly affect tech workers from India and China who
have come in via temporary visas but are facing a backlog of green card
applications. The measure has received bipartisan support but has
failed to get through Congress.
The summary calculates the number of visas to be made available to be approximately 200,000.
[…]
Former
acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan and
former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom
Homan, released a statement describing the proposal as "nothing more
than amnesty, cloaked with the fig leaf of ‘more funding’ for Border
Patrol."
"In reality, this proposal would do nothing except
encourage more families around the world to put their children, of all
ages, in the hands of the cartels, enriching these blood-thirsty and
savage organizations, driving even-higher numbers of unaccompanied
minors to the border, and further overwhelming an already besieged
Border Patrol," they said.
Focus on the amnesty provisions, and how much of this won’t solve the
border crisis Biden created—none of it is good. The bill's core is a
softer version of what Democrats want, and we have some spineless Senate
Republicans going along with it, thinking they will be rewarded for
these measures. The worst part is that the poll of GOP support in the
Senate mainly comprises people already leaving public life. Weaken
asylum benchmarks, deport people who shouldn’t be here, have no pathway
to citizenship, no chain migration, finish the wall, and separate the
families upon arrest at the border. The Ritz-Carlton treatment must end
at the minimum to send the message: don’t come illegally. And no, just
because your country is a hell-hole doesn’t mean you qualify for asylum.
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