America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, January 25, 2021
HISPANDERING BIDEN SAYS HE WILL HAND ALL OF AMERICA TO MEXICO AND THEN THERE WILL BE NO 'ILLEGALS'
Biden Moves for Mass Amnesty in First Day as President
President Joe Biden on Wednesday will send legislation to Congress that would offer amnesty and a path to citizenship to the bulk of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States, teeing up a potentially momentous struggle with Congress.
Biden's proposal would substantially overhaul the immigration system, loosening key restrictions to dramatically increase legal immigration alongside its amnesty provisions. At the same time, it contains only a few gestures at enhanced border security, a sign of the Democratic Party's turn away from the compromise approach that characterized previous immigration reform efforts.
"The amnesty bill that Reagan signed in '86, as well as the two big amnesty bills that failed, in 2007 and the Gang of Eight bill in 2014, all were presented as a grand bargain of amnesty for people who were already established, but enforcement measures to supposedly ensure we wouldn't have to be having another amnesty debate a few years down the road," Mark Krikorian, director of the pro-restriction Center for Immigration Studies, told the Washington Free Beacon. "This bill rejects that concept altogether, and is essentially just an amnesty bill with no enforcement."
Biden cannot grant amnesty at this scale without legislative action. The bill, along with a host of executive orders, including an end to border wall construction and a reverse on the Trump administration's "travel ban," represents a stark about-face from predecessor Donald Trump, reversing an aggressive immigration enforcement regime and cuts to legal immigration. But those changes are unlikely to be popular with Senate Republicans, who have already blasted Biden's proposal.
That could mean a challenge to Biden's legislative agenda straight out of the gate, as the Republican minority in the narrowly divided Senate stalls Biden's proposed changes. That could, in turn, lead to a major first loss for the new president—or, more momentously, an end to the Senate's filibuster.
The core of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, according to details released by the Biden transition team, is an eight-year path to citizenship for the overwhelming majority of America's estimated 11 million illegal residents. Those who pay taxes and pass criminal and national security background checks would be eligible for temporary protection, which in turn would become eligible for green cards after five years and citizenship three years after that.
Beneficiaries of DACA (640,000 people), Temporary Protected Status (roughly 300,000), and certain farmworkers would be able to obtain green cards immediately. Applicants will need to have been present in the United States as of January 2021, but that requirement can be waived specifically for those deported under the Trump administration who were here for "family unity and other humanitarian purposes."
The bill would offer other dramatic overhauls, substantially loosening immigration restrictions. It would boost visa quotas across all categories, including the diversity visa lottery quota. It would also allow approved family visa beneficiaries to come to the United States and reside temporarily until a green card becomes available, extending residency to nearly 3.5 million people currently in the backlog. And it would end the 3- and 10-year bars on reentering the United States legally if an applicant was previously an illegal resident.
In exchange for these changes, the Biden bill makes few concessions to border security. It pushes for expedited screening at the border, as well as enhanced drug screening equipment. But the only explicit proposal to curb surging illegal immigration is a commitment of $4 billion over four years to the several Central American countries from which many of those immigrants now originate, meant to target the "root causes" of migration.
The lack of enforcement provisions, Krikorian said, makes the measure a band-aid at best on the problem of the country's large illegal resident population.
"That's always the key to any amnesty provision, not whether it legalizes the people who were already here, but what does it propose to do about the people who aren't here yet," Krikorian said. "And there's nothing in this bill that gives me any confidence that we won't have another large, new illegal population at the end of this presidential term."
Biden's executive orders, issued Wednesday, strike a similar tone. In a series of promised reversals of Trump, Biden unwound Trump's interior enforcement executive order, stopped the construction of the border wall, granted Liberians temporary protection from deportation, and reversed Trump's ban on travel from certain countries known to be connected to terrorism.
Even before Biden's swearing in, his immigration plans were met with resistance from congressional Republicans. During confirmation hearings for Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's tap for secretary of homeland security, Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) challenged the nominee, asking him if he "support[s] mass amnesty—11 million is a very, very large number. Do you support mass amnesty on that scale?"
Mayorkas backed his soon-to-be boss, endorsing the Biden plan. But it has drawn the ire of other Republicans, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa).
"I've previously supported immigration proposals that would provide certainty for DACA-eligible individuals and lead to greater border security and more robust enforcement of our immigration laws," Grassley said in a statement. "But a mass amnesty with no safeguards and no strings attached is a nonstarter. As we've seen before, that approach only encourages further violations of our immigration laws."
This hostility could prove a major challenge to Biden's legislative ambitions. The bill will need the backing of 10 Republican senators to make it past the legislative filibuster, a big lift when even moderates like Sen. Mitt Romney (R., Utah) are firm on controlling illegal immigration.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has indicated to his caucus that he sees preserving the filibuster as of paramount importance and hopes to cooperate with new majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to pass legislation. But Schumer's commitment to passing the bill could bring about conflict, rather than comity, in the opening days of Biden's term.
Rubio Demands DHS Explain Deportation Freeze
Senator concerned illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes, rape will stay in U.S.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) is demanding the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security explain its decision to end the deportation of illegal immigrants, which could include those convicted of violent crimes, rape, sexual assault, and other felonies.
Rubio calls for immediate clarification on a directive issued this week mandating "an immediate pause on removals of any noncitizen with a final order of removal," in a letter sent Friday to David Pekoske, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Rather than deporting illegal immigrants, DHS said on Wednesday it will focus on processing immigrants along the Southern border and rebuilding "fair and effective asylum procedures that respect human rights and due process." This also includes "a review of policies and practices concerning immigration enforcement."
Rubio says that the broad directive will pave the way for illegal immigrants scheduled for deportation to remain on extended stays in the United States. The policy shift, Rubio says, raises concerns about how the new administration will address the persistent border crisis. Joe Biden's first days in office have been marked by a blitz of executive orders rolling back Trump administration policies, including ending construction on the border wall running along the southern United States. These executive orders contrast with Biden's own rhetoric urging reconciliation, unity, and centrist government policies.
"President Biden is talking like a centrist, but he is governing like someone from the far left. I am very concerned that this move by DHS could allow some incredibly dangerous criminals to remain in America," Rubio told the Washington Free Beacon. "We need answers now."
Rubio's letter focuses on concerns that DHS's directive will halt the already scheduled removal of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records and convicted felons.
The new memorandum realigns U.S. policy on the deportation of illegals by listing "public safety" concerns as a lower priority than both national security threats and illegals caught crossing the border since November 2020. The order is unclear about whether illegal aliens convicted of crimes prior to Jan. 19 of this year will be deemed a priority in the deportation process.
"Does this mean someone convicted of an ‘aggravated felony,' including rape or sexual abuse of a minor, is not a priority for removal if they were released from jail on or before January 19, 2021?" Rubio asks in his letter.
Illegal immigrants will only be deported during this period if Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director intervenes on a case-by-case basis.
Rubio is also seeking clarification on this point, asking: "Does the ‘pause' on removals apply to someone convicted of an ‘aggravated felony' such as rape or sexual abuse of a minor, who was released from jail on or before January 19, 2021, unless the acting director makes an individualized determination that ‘removal is required by law'?"
DHS is also laying the groundwork to reopen already concluded deportation cases, though it is unclear if this will apply to convicted felons scheduled to be sent out of the country.
ICE Agents Ordered to Free All Illegal Aliens in Custody: ‘Release Them All’
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, tasked with enforcing federal immigration law, are being instructed to free all detainees in their custody, as President Joe Biden’s administration halts deportations.
An internal January 21 ICE memo, independently reviewed by Breitbart News and first reported by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, orders agents to “stop all removals,” including land and air deportations.
In addition, the memo tells agents that “all cases” of detainees in ICE custody are now to be considered “no significant likelihood of removal in foreseeable future” — suggesting all detainees will need to be released.
“Release them all, immediately,” the ICE official wrote to staff in the memo. Typically, if detainees do not have sponsors in the United States, agents can hold an individual in their custody. The memo, though, states that is no longer the case and that even detainees without sponsors must be released.
It is unclear if ICE is currently carrying out the mass release of all 14,195 detainees in its custody, 71.45 percent of whom are convicted criminals or have pending criminal charges. These detainees are currently held in approximately 138 facilities across the United States.
ICE has halted all deportations, regardless of the criminal convictions of an illegal alien, as a result of Biden’s executive order stopping removals for at least 100 days. The initiative is a long-term goal of the open borders lobby, which has sought a permanent end to deportations.
ICE officials have not responded to a request for comment in time for this publication.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden for ‘Unlawful’ Halt to Deportations
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration for what he says is an “unlawful” executive order that halts deportations of illegal aliens.
Hours after taking office on January 20, Biden signed an executive order that halts deportations of most illegal aliens for at least 100 days. The order comes as illegal immigration has spiked in recent months and a migrant caravan heads to the United States-Mexico border in the hopes of taking advantage of the Biden administration’s lax enforcement policies.
On Friday, Paxton filed a complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in a request that immediately ends Biden’s halt on deportations.
Paxton, in a statement, said Biden’s order “violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law, and a contractual agreement” between Texas and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“In one of its first of dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law,” Paxton wrote:
Our state defends the largest section of the southern border in the nation. Failure to properly enforce the law will directly and immediately endanger our citizens and law enforcement personnel.
DHS itself has previously acknowledged that such a freeze on deportations will cause concrete injuries to Texas. I am confident that these unlawful and perilous actions cannot stand. The rule of law and security of our citizens must prevail.
Biden additionally signed executive orders to loosen interior immigration enforcement, end border wall construction, eliminate the anti-fraud “Remain in Mexico” policy, and reinstate immigration from nations considered exporters of terrorism.
Deportations for illegal aliens is a huge cost savings for American taxpayers, research has found. The taxpayer cost of the roughly 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. totals nearly $750 billion over the course of a lifetime while each deportation costs just $10,900. This indicates that taxpayers would save about $622 billion over a lifetime if every illegal alien was deported.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Joe Biden to Mexico: We’ll Cut Migration by Raising Migration
President [Joe Biden] outlined his plan to reduce migration by … increasing [migrant] resettlement capacity and lawful alternative immigration pathways [in the United States], improving processing at the [U.S.] border to adjudicate [migrants’] requests for asylum, and reversing the previous administration’s draconian immigration policies.
The statement suggests that Biden will try to reduce illegal migration into Americans’ workplaces by raising legalized migration into Americans’ workplaces.
Overall, any increase in the supply of foreign workers reduces Americans’ wages and inflates cheap-labor profits for CEOs and investors. Currently, the United States government imports roughly 1 million legal immigrants and roughly 1 million temporary workers each year, just as roughly 4 million Americans begin their work careers.
In 2019, President Donald Trump’s popular curbs on migration and illegal hiring helped raise Americans’ household income by 7 percent.
Biden and his deputies face a difficult task balancing their efforts to carefully extract more workers and consumers from Central America while also trying to prevent a chaotic migration of people seeking U.S. jobs and homes. For the moment, Biden and his progressive allies have given the task of stopping Latino migrants to the governments of Guatemala and Mexico.
The White House statement said, “the two leaders agreed to work closely to stem the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States, as well as to promote development in the Northern Triangle of Central America.”
“We spoke with President Biden, he was kind and respectful,” the statement read. “We deal with issues related to migration, # COVID19 [Chinese coronavirus] and cooperation for development and well-being. Everything indicates that relations will be good for the good of our peoples and nations.”
Progressives (& biz) cheerlead the 'Hunger Games' obstacle-course trail that delivers migrants to the US, despite Americans' expectation for a capped & orderly immig system. The trail inflicts much damage & death, but progressives demand diversity first.https://t.co/90s5dnQQ4l
Biden’s deputies are talking up their plans to provide aid to Central America, even as they draft plans to pull more young workers and consumers northwards to help U.S. employers and investors.
For example, Biden has touted a promise to send $4 billion to reduce the economic incentive for more migrants to join their illegal-migrant relatives in workplaces around the United States.
But the combined population of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala is 32 million. Biden’s spending plan would offer $1,200 per person to the countries to reduce migration.
Currently, the three countries already get roughly $17 billiona yearin remittances from the illegal and legal workers they exported to the United States. Those remittances provide the countries’ governments with economic inflows of roughly $4,500 per person in exchange for exporting their young people to jobs in the United States.
The remittance money comes via U.S. employers and the Central American workers who take jobs and wages away from Americans. The exported remittances also reduce U.S. domestic spending at shops, on autos, and in local communities and also reduce tax receipts for local, state, and federal governments.
The threat of illegal migration will continue because Biden’s plan for legal immigration will not include all of the roughly five million Central Americans who want to get to the United States — nor the tens of millions of people from other countries around the world. Biden is also trying to amnesty all illegal migrants in the United States and has directed his immigration officials to release migrants being held for deportation. Biden’s promise of an amnesty will help pull additional migrants to make their way to the United States.
The Los Angeles Times described the motives of the poor and desperate migrants:
Heidi Arely GarcÃa, 19, has more immediate needs. She fled Honduras with the caravan hoping to make it somewhere to find work to shelter, feed and clothe her toddler.
GarcÃa used to make four dollars a day helping a neighbor make snacks to sell, but she lost her job when her neighbor fell ill. Then the hurricanes flooded her community in Colinas, 60 miles southwest of San Pedro Sula.
“‘The water wrought havoc there,’ she said in Vado Hondo, before the Guatemalan military and police broke up her caravan,” the article concluded.
Americans oppose the entry of caravan migrants by 2:1 — but liberals & wealthy support the inflow.
(Do wealthy Americans find it easier to hire grateful migrants for labor than to hire Americans w/ expectations of civic respect? Has this been studied?)https://t.co/kbFGlTmNWD
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