Steve Scalise: Democrats Plotting to Sneak Amnesty for Millions Through Congress Under Guise of Budget Process
By Craig Bannister | May 4, 2021 | 11:36am EDT
Democrats know that they can’t get mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens through Congress without deception, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Scalise took to Twitter to expose Democrats’ plan to sneak amnesty through Congress “under the cover of the budget process,” Scalise said, calling on his more than four hundred and fifty thousand followers to retweet his post “to expose them”:
“Democrats are now considering sneaking mass amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants through Congress under the cover of the budget process.
“They know it doesn't have enough bipartisan support to pass on its own.
“RT to expose them.”
On Monday, Scalise asked his followers to consider what President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have – and haven’t – done during the administrations’ first one hundred days. Pres. Biden still hasn’t taken steps to undo the border crisis he created – and the person he charged with addressing the crisis still hasn’t visited the border, Scalise wrote:
“103 days since Biden issued orders that created the border crisis.
“He hasn't reversed them.
“40 days since he tapped Harris to solve the crisis.
“She hasn’t visited the border.
“39 days since he promised transparency.
“The press still doesn’t have full access.
“Think about that.”
VP Kamala Harris: 'The Western Hemisphere Is Our Home'
(CNSNews.com) - Most Americans call the United States "home," but on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris expanded the definition.
"The Western Hemisphere is our home," Harris told the 51st Annual Washington Conference on the Americas.
"And because it is our home, because the people within it are our neighbors, it is imperative that we promote democracy and good governance, security, and prosperity within the region. It is also important that we build relationships throughout the hemisphere that are based on dignity and diplomacy, relationships that are both candid and collaborative."
Harris said now that "America is back" (because Biden is president), "we are revitalizing our relationships throughout the Western Hemisphere, from the southernmost parts of South America to the northernmost parts of Canada and everywhere in between."
She continued, reaching for a story-and-pen metaphor:
The strength of United States of America depends on the strength of all of the Western Hemisphere. In so many ways, our fates are intertwined. That is especially true of Latin America, one of our fastest growing trade partners. To be sure, our relationship with Latin America is bigger than trade, and our relationship is incredibly complex and, at times, has been incredibly complicated.
Today I want to make clear that our administration firmly believes in the potential of the region and in the power of the people of the region. Latin Americans are shaping their own future. They are writing their own story. They hold the pen. As I see it, our role is to read those words, take them in, and help however we can as Latin America writes its own next chapter. Put another way, the United States is committed to supporting the vision of the people in the region in their need for relief, in their hope for opportunity, in their calls for justice.
Harris said the reason people are fleeing to the United States is because they are "suffering" and "in pain."
"People in the region do not want to leave their homes," Harris said. "They do not want to leave the communities they have known their entire lives, the church they go to every Sunday, the park they take their children to, their friends, their family, their community.
"I do believe they leave only when they feel they must. And I'm thinking about people whose homes have been washed away by hurricanes, people who are parents who have sons who have been threatened by drug cartels, people who have daughters who've been targeted by human traffickers, people who do not have enough to eat, people who are out of work, people who have lost hope."
Harris said the Biden administration wants to "help people find help at home" -- home in this case being their native countries.
After discussing the various reasons for illegal immigration, Harris veered into victimhood:
So, there is much work that needs to be done to combat violence in the Northern Triangle, violence against Afro descendants, violence against indigenous people, violence against LGBTQ people, violence against young people, violence against women.
And I have spent much of my career defending survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. I have fought for the equality and the safety of every group I just named, and I believe, as I know all of you do, that we must stand up for the basic human rights of all people. And when those rights are violated, I will say it again, we must respond.
Harris said the work to lift up Central America, in particular, "will not be easy."
She said the United States cannot do it alone, and therefore will depend on regional governments as well as "governments outside of the region." She said she has spoken with world leaders from Canada, Finland, Ireland, and Japan "about partnering with us to help the Northern Triangle," although it's not clear how that would be in their interest. (Finland?)
Harris concluded her remarks with a comment about "knowing that we are neighbors, knowing that our strength depends on one another and that our hope grows together."
DHS Mayorkas Ignores Americans’ Border: ‘Our Highest Priority’ Is to Help Migrant Families
President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, declared on May 4 that his agency’s “highest priority” is to reunite foreign families with the children they left behind in the United States when they were deported during President Donald Trump’s term in office.
Mayorkas’s claim to MSNBC on March 4 came after he announced that four deported families would be allowed into the United States to live with a child or teenager they left behind. “We need … [to] develop a process where we can systemically bring them into this country safely and begin the healing process,” he claimed, according to a transcript prepared and released by his Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The media-magnified spotlight by Biden and Mayorkas on the migrant families “is distracting attention from their own responsibility for screwing up the border,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
It’s [Donald] Trump flagellation actually, because [the message that] “Trump is responsible for the evil of family separation” is the most emotionally potent message for Democrats … They’re turning it into a defining issue [for immigraton policy] in a way that is simply not supported by the facts.
Mayorkas is trying to focus the public’s attention on the welfare of a few thousand Central American parents who brought their children to help them get through the border and get jobs in the United States.
But his deputies are allowing a growing number of foreign blue-collar workers to rush through the border and into the jobs needed by diverse Americans. Roughly 185,000 single economic migrants have run past Mayorkas’s diverted border agents since October, a source told Breitbart News.
Also, Mayorkas has adopted border rules that encourage many more foreign families to separate. Mayorkas’s rules allow migrants to enter the United States via the different side doors for children, teenagers, single adults, or families. Mayorkas’s separated inflow includes at least 30,000 separated children and teenagers who were brought to the border by hired coyotes.
In many cases, the migrants chose to leave their children behind as they were deported back home. Most of the children and teenagers were subsequently sent to live with relatives, including many of who are living illegally in the United States. With the help of cell phones, many of the migrants remain in contact with their left-behind children.
Mayorkas told MSNBC March 4:
Our highest priority is to reunite these families. As we so powerfully saw, these are young people in their formative years. These are sometimes children as young as 3 years old. We are addressing the needs and vulnerabilities, not only of the children, but of course, their mothers, their fathers, the people that make up these families.
Mayorkas arrived in the United States as a child refugee fleeing from Castro’s Cuba. He has frequently shown his favoritism for migrants, for example, by describing the United States as a nation of immigrants. He continued:
Our announcement of the reunification of four families is only the beginning, but it’s an important beginning to, in fact, publicize … Some [of the migrants’ children] live with immediate relatives, some with distant relatives, some are placed in foster care because they’re unaccompanied and they don’t have a sponsor in the United States … Some of these children are in their most formative years, their most formative stages of development, others are acutely vulnerable by reason of their incredible youth. Three years of age, at the time of separation, it’s extraordinarily cruel and inhumane.
“It’s not about righting the wrong of the past; it’s about restoring the conscience of our government,” said Mayorkas, who is now drafting regulations that will help migrants dodge the popular laws that require the deportation of migrant workers from Americans’ national labor market.
Since January 20, Biden and Mayorkas have discarded Trump’s pro-American, pro-family policies and have revived the long-standing extraction-migration policies supported by prior presidents.
These semi-legal policies extract migrants and consumers from Mexico, Central America, and other regions for use in the U.S. economy — regardless of the damage done to the migrants on their Hunger Games-style trek to the United States or to the economies and political development of migrant-sending countries, such as Honduras and Guatemala.
The personal impact of Mayorkas’s extraction-migration policies was described on April 30 by the Dallas News. The newspaper interviewed Carlos Joaquin, a Guatemalan migrant who has worked lower-wage jobs for 80-hours per week to pay off his debts to the coyote smugglers:
He’s at a breaking point. Torn to pieces, he said. “My family needs me,” he said recently over chicken tacos and a bottled Coke. “But my friends here tell me to hold on because the economy is about to boom; that I should just pay a coyote to bring my children and reunite with them because I may not be going home, not for a while.”
Joaquin arrived in March 2019, just before Trump overcame the establishment’s opposition and shut down the extraction-migration policy:
His two children back home in Guatemala, a boy and a girl, now live with his mother. His wife left him for another man after becoming lonely and depressed. He says she all but abandoned him and his children, and only reaches out to the family when she needs money.
“The hardest part is when I talk to my kids and they seem distant, sometimes rebellious, and treat me as though I’m a stranger,” Joaquin said. “They are becoming rebels without a father. Imagine what they think of me? Some stranger in some faraway land who claims to be their father, the one who broke his family apart and abandoned them.”
Joaquin’s 80 hours of work per week allowed him to pay off his smuggling debts and begin construction of a house in Guatemala.
But the pressure on him to work 80 hours per week also allows U.S companies to avoid hiring and training diverse Americans for decent jobs.
That cross-border difference creates a huge opportunity for U.S. employers to declare their independence from the blue-collar and white-collar Americans who want steady work, decent pay, weekends off, workplace protections, and some rights.
For example, former President George W. Bush described himself as a Mexican and scoffed at Americans’ expectations as mere “cultural tensions,” in an April 30 interview for the anti-Trump Despatch Podcast:
It became very apparent [on a 2000 campaign tour in Iowa] that immigration was going to create some cultural tensions—as those meatpacking plants up there in Iowa needed workers and, you know, the Swedes weren’t all that anxious to do it. And in comes [migrant] people who are starving to do the work, and hard workers, and all of a sudden those communities begin to change, and the culture, the friction. And, you know, I didn’t really realize that. I mean, after all, I grew up in Texas. Where we were Mexico.
DHS Mayorkas thinks immigrants are the "backbone" of the U.S. economy.
Similar claims are made by Pelosi, Bush, Schumer, etc.,
But flattery for migrants can mask contempt for Americans. That could be very harmful if shared by the nation's border chief. https://t.co/I1ZnlGpdL7— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) May 4, 2021
In several interviews, Bush has claimed that business executives should be allowed to import compliant, grateful workers to work jobs at their estates and companies:
I’m a tree farmer, believe it or not. And you know, we’ve got eight Mexican [visa worker] laborers on our farm. And they, I think we’re in our third year with them working there. But every year, they have to reapply for a visa. So the way the rule works is you apply and you go through the bureaucracy, and then they have to go home for two months out of every year, which is fine, because they go home during the season where we’re not, you know, spending much time digging trees. And the question, though, can they get back in? Will the government let them in? And it creates a lot of uncertainty for a small business, because if the government at one point says no you can’t come back, all those years of training goes down the tubes. And so it sets us back.
But establishment reporters don’t call Mayorkas out for his duplicity, said Krikorian, because ” they’re part of the fakery.”
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, intra-Democratic, rational, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal and illegal migration moves money away from most Americans’ pocketbooks and families. Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.
Joe Biden claims Trump gets the blame for the "mess at the border."
But the mess is only part of the crisis caused by Biden's embrace of the estb. GOP's 'extraction migration' policy, to boost biz with more workers & consumers.
IOW, how we get Trump II. https://t.co/YvrbKkgSmm— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) April 30, 2021
Thousands of Migrants Freed into U.S. by DHS Resettle in Florida, Texas
Thousands of migrants, enrolled in the now-defunct “Remain in Mexico” program, released into the United States interior are resettling in Florida, Texas, and other states, new data reveals.
After taking office in January, Biden ended the Remain in Mexico program, which had proven remarkably effective in eliminating the Catch and Release policy whereby border crossers are apprehended and subsequently released into the U.S. interior while awaiting their asylum hearings.
As of February, of the more than 71,000 asylum cases under Remain in Mexico, less than one percent of foreign nationals were found to have a legitimate asylum claim.
Biden announced in February that his Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the help of the United Nations, would start releasing about 25,600 migrants enrolled in the program into the U.S. interior. Breitbart News exclusively reported that the migrants are being released in Brownsville and El Paso, Texas, as well as San Diego, California.
Data compiled by the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University shows that nearly 4,000 Remain in Mexico cases out of close to 25,000 pending cases have been transferred out of courts along the U.S.-Mexico border to locations inside the nation’s interior.
The data shows where Remain in Mexico migrants are traveling to once they are released into the U.S. interior. More than 650 have gone to Miami, Florida, while more than 320 have ended up in Orlando, Florida, and more than 200 have resettled in Dallas, Texas.
Likewise, 135 of the cases have been transferred to San Antonio, Texas; 83 transferred to Houston, Texas; 43 transferred to Harlingen, Texas; 19 transferred to El Paso;Texas, and a handful of others transferred to Pearsall and Laredo, Texas.
Hundreds of Remain in Mexico migrants are also resettling in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, California, while more than 140 have ended up in Arlington, Virginia.
As of early April, more than 6,400 Remain in Mexico migrants had been released into the U.S. interior who otherwise would have had to wait in Mexico until their asylum hearing in court.
Even if migrants are deemed ineligible for asylum following their hearing, they are unlikely to be deported from the U.S. thanks to Biden’s “sanctuary country” orders that ensure illegal aliens are not deported unless they have been recently convicted of an aggravated felony.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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